Ottawa also says it will spend $7.3-billion to upgrade bases, operating locations to support the American-made fighter jets it plans to buy
Canada will speed up deployment of a new high-tech radar system to upgrade North American air defences and retrofit military bases to accommodate the new American-made warplane that Ottawa is buying, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced during U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Canada Friday.
Mr. Trudeau announced Friday it will accelerate the installation of a next-generation over-the-horizon radar that will provide early-warning radar coverage and threat tracking from the Canada-U.S. border to the Arctic Circle. It will be ready by 2028, the government said. A separate system, the polar over-the-horizon radar will be ready by 2032 and provide the same coverage and tracking over and beyond the northernmost approaches to North America.
Mr. Trudeau said Canada would invest $100-million “to provide enhanced policing support and equipment to the Haitian National Police, to bolster Haitian-led solutions to the crisis and support peace and security.” Ottawa also announced it would imposed additional sanctions on two more members of the Haitian elite. These sanctions will freeze the assets of former Haitian senator Nenel Cassy and businessman and former presidential candidate Steeve Khawly, and make them inadmissible to Canada.
The President noted that a Canadian astronaut will take part in NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed test flight of the Artemis program, which ultimately aims to create a sustainable presence on the Moon and pave the way for human exploration of Mars. The crew will be announced April 3. He was introduced by Mr. Trudeau who talked of myriad challenges both face right now. “You are a true friend to Canada and that matters more than ever,” the Prime Minister told the Commons. “These are serious times,” he said, citing climate change, the pandemic and Russia’s military assault on Ukraine. “War has now returned to Europe.”
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