Cruise Missile Testing   years. This is an agreement in support of a mutual defence pact which is of great value to Canada. It means a lot to our stability. The U.S.S.R. by and large has disappeared and is no longer an obvious threat. The area is certainly not under control. There is a lot of volatility

Cruise Missile Testing  Mr. Speaker, the reason originally for the cruise missile testing in western and northern Canada was because the terrain of that particular part of Canada closely resembled that of the Soviet Union. Since the Soviet Union no longer exists and since the war areas in the world

Cruise Missile Testing   on the target. Terminal homing provides improved guidance where the nature of the target or warhead is delivered very accurately wherever it is aimed. Future versions of the cruise missile can be expected to display higher speeds, greater manoeuvrability, longer range, lower radar and other

Cruise Missile Testing   of 1987 between President Reagan and Secretary Gorbachev. It reached the stage where, in a work published in 1989 by me and my distinguished friend the then president of the World Court, Nagendra Singh, we posed the question whether the user of nuclear weapons was illegal per se

Cruise Missile Testing   are different from what they were before, in this time when there are threats from new forms of enemies, will the testing of this unusual and very sophisticated weapon, which is no longer restricted to nuclear capacity but to conventional capacity, enable Canadians to defend themselves

Cruise Missile Testing   casualties. I now think, in this new debate, that to protect democracy as such, in our country and everywhere else, it is important to be equipped with the proper tools, no longer aimed at massive destruction, but at delicate surgery to excise those threats to democracy. My question

Cruise Missile Testing   changed considerably and that the global balance of power was no longer based on a bipolar structure. We have witnessed the gradual emergence of new nuclear powers, which are often very politically unstable. Under such circumstances, it was risky for Canada and its allies to question

Cruise Missile Testing   policy. You will agree with me that if the government decides that the collective security system which has been in place since the late forties is no longer adequate and that we must withdraw from it, such a decision will have a major impact on the continuation of the cruise missile

Cruise Missile Testing   Development and Western Economic Diversification, who was then minister of defence, signed the original test evaluation agreement with the U.S. Recently this minister claims that Canada no longer needs these tests because the cold war is over. The cold war may be over but this world

Cruise Missile Testing   missiles soon will no longer be pointed at the United States. Nor will we point ours at them". He went on to say: "Instead of building weapons in space Russian scientists will help us build the international space station". Mr. Clinton stressed last night that ultimately the best

Cruise Missile Testing   has shifted very rapidly. It is no longer the agenda on how to prevent a strike or an attack that we should be concentrating our time and energy on. It is how to prevent the elements in the global community that have to do with, as I mentioned, poverty and environmental degradation

Cruise Missile Testing   for the Reform Party and our own leader. It has changed in that we no longer have two blocs confronting each other but the occasional isolated conflict. As the hon. member for Saint-Jean said earlier, if we use these tests to enhance our security and concentrate more on ways to defend our

Cruise Missile Testing  . It is not as far reaching since, as a result of disarmament initiatives and various treaties signed recently, the number of missiles is limited to 460. This is a thousand less than previously. They will be replaced as they become obsolete, but the number will never exceed 460. In that sense

Cruise Missile Testing   might know I have opposed the testing of cruise missiles from the very beginning in 1983 and on all previous occasions when this matter was before the House I voted against the testing. Since the cold war is now fortunately no longer with us I am even more opposed than I have been

Cruise Missile Testing   by this description because weapons are supposed to be dangerous. I do not think his is a strong argument because what makes a weapon effective is its mobility, its ability to quickly reach its target, the enemy, its strike power and its invulnerability to enemy attacks. I fail to see how one can