{"id":25761,"date":"2017-09-17T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25761"},"modified":"2017-09-17T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:00:04","slug":"john-ivison-u-s-policy-is-not-to-defend-canada-in-the-event-of-a-missile-attack-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25761","title":{"rendered":"John Ivison: &#8216;U.S. policy is not to defend Canada&#8217; in the event of a missile attack, general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\">John Ivison: &#8216;U.S. policy is not to defend Canada&#8217; in the event of a missile attack, general says<\/h3>\n<p class=\"excerpt\"><strong>Participation in the ballistic missile defence program would be costly, but, amid nuclear threats, it appears we are no longer under the protective umbrella of the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-featured-media-container below-content\">\n<figure id=\"post-76549319media-76549319\" class=\"entry-featured-media align-none wp-caption post-img featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/pierre-st-amand-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Lt. Gen. Pierre St-Amand before the Commons National Defence Committee on Sept. 14, 2017: \u201cI\u2019m being told in Colorado Springs that U.S. policy is not to defend Canada. That\u2019s fact I can bring to the table.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"img-author\">THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sean Kilpatrick<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"left-rail\" class=\"fixed-holder first left\">\n<div id=\"entry-details-container\">\n<section id=\"entry-details\" class=\"entry-details byline native-sticky clearfix\">\n<div class=\"story-details\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"shortcut share-button share-email\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"shortcut share-button share-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/john-ivison-general-has-sobering-news-for-politicians-who-assume-u-s-missiles-will-defend-canada#\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"related-stories-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-main-content\" class=\"fixed-fluid-holder right active last\">\n<div class=\"fluid-holder right\">\n<div class=\"entry-content \">\n<div class=\"story-content\">\n<p>Politicians approach most subjects with open mouths, but they are rarely at a loss for words.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the testimony at a House of Commons defence committee, specially convened to consider the thorny problem that is North Korea, was so memorable.<\/p>\n<p>Honourable members were stumped by the testimony of Lt. Gen. Pierre St-Amand, the Canadian who serves as deputy commander of North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP James Bezan asked St-Amand whether he agreed with the common Canadian perception that the Americans would shoot down an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile heading for a Canadian city, even though Canada is not a participant in the U.S.\u2019s ballistic missile defence program. His response jolted the committee members from their late-summer stupor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m being told in Colorado Springs that U.S. policy is not to defend Canada. That\u2019s fact I can bring to the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>St-Amand conceded that in the \u201cheat of the moment,\u201d American commanders might act contrary to their stated policy, \u201cbut that would be entirely a U.S. decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news was greeted with stunned silence.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Justin Trudeau\u2019s refusal to commit to participation in BMD Canada is, and looks destined to remain, defenceless from ballistic missile attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ivison: &#8216;U.S. policy is not to defend Canada&#8217; in the event of a missile attack, general says Participation in the ballistic missile defence program would be costly, but, amid nuclear threats, it appears we are no longer under the protective umbrella of the U.S. Lt. Gen. Pierre St-Amand before the Commons National Defence Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[103,16037,16038,10377,827],"class_list":["post-25761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-canada","tag-john-ivison","tag-missile-defence","tag-national-post","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25762,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions\/25762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}