Vulnerability of Canada’s Arctic a security threat that needs urgent action: report

“There are serious questions about NORAD’s capacity to monitor these threats and to thwart them,” he said. “Tracking these weapons will require upgraded, space-based satellite surveillance systems, operating alongside new ground-based, over-the-horizon radar systems. In addition, the committee recommends the response to NORAD’s weaknesses be part of the Government’s next defence policy which would “…. “Foreign powers are already testing our resolve, whether in the air through spy balloons or on the water through monitoring buoys. We are too dependent on the United States for Arctic defence — we must live up to our responsibilities as a northern country.”Comments, tips or story ideas?