The Conservative government may be quietly revisiting a decade-old decision not to join the U.S. ballistic missile defence (BMD) program.
Missile defence: What, again?
NORAD
Steven Staples presents to Senate Committee on National Security and Defence
Steven Staples took comments from Ceasefire.ca supporters to a meeting with Senator Dallaire and the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence on Monday.
Missile-defence radar at Goose Bay?
The Department of National Defence is looking for ways to contribute to the U.S. missile defence system and may try to revive a proposal to build a radar at Goose Bay.
New defence agreement with the U.S.
Another defence cooperation agreement between the Canada and the United States is signed.
NORAD role to expand?
Last week’s perimeter security talks between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama included an interesting proposal of expanding NORAD to cover land and sea operations. The proposed new deal would integrate Canada-U.S. command structures, headquarters, and operations with regards to continental security. (John Ivison, “NORAD could be expanded to land and sea,” The National Post, 11 February 2011). The plan resonates the 2002 Canada-U.S. combined defence plan that would have placed Canada under the sphere of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
Russian bomber flights rare: NORAD
NORAD statistics obtained by the Ottawa Citizen show that Russian bomber flights near Canadian airspace–which the Harper government has been hyping in its efforts to …