The North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) has provided continental defence of North America for over sixty years, but urgently requires modernization. But he stressed that as other countries invest in new weapons technologies, NORAD needs to keep pace. Currently, a chain of unmanned long and short-range radar station sites called the North Warning System stretches across the Arctic. “The capabilities we do have are aged, they aren’t good enough,” Findlay said, adding that Canada’s Arctic sovereignty has to be more than a buzzword. And last month, Canada’s Defence Minister Anita Anand said that options she’d presented to cabinet ahead of the April 7 budget included boosting the country’s defence spending to more than two per cent of the GDP.

Source: CBC News April 07, 2022 01:16 UTC