Liberal leader Mark Carney says that the filtration of the main US National Security officials.
“My responsibility is to plan the worst, is to think about the most difficult evolution of the new threat environment, which it means to Canada and how we better protect Canada,” Carney said during a Field stop on Halifax on Tuesday.
“Part of that answer is to be more and more Canadian in our defense capabilities, more and more Canadian in our decisions … We have to take care of ourselves,” he added.
Carney made the comments one day after a report that the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Heghseth, and the United States vice president JD Vance, sent a war message to military war plans in Yemen to a group of signals that included the chief editor of Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The material in the text chain “contained operational details of the next strikes on the reorganized Houthi backed by Iran in Yemen, including information on objectives, weapons that the United States would deploy and the attack sequence,” Goldberg said.
Hegesh’s first comments about history attacked Goldberg as “misleading” and as a “journalist called discredited”, while referring to the previous critical reports of Trump of the publication.
“No one was sending text messages to war plans and that is all I have to say about that,” Hegseth said in an exchange with journalists on Monday.
But Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the United States National Security Council, later said that the text chain “seems to be authentic and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.”
“It’s a serious and serious problem,” says Carney
Carney said that he currently has a high -level security authorization and has also enjoyed that access in Canada and the United Kingdom, and is aware that information can be filtered from time to time.
“It is a serious and serious problem and all lessons must be taken from any of those, even in this circumstance,” he said on Tuesday.
“The important thing is how people react to those mistakes and how they are tied,” he added. “They do not deny mistakes, but they are clear and transparent and [are] progressing them. “
Carney said that Canada has a strong intelligence and security relationship with the United States, but that association is evolving as the relationship between the two countries continues to change.
“Our world is changing, it is becoming more divided and dangerous,” he said. “Our adversaries are increasingly emboldened, and the rules that have kept Canada and the world safe are in danger.
“The priorities of the United States, once closely aligned to ours, have changed. Our sovereignty is under threat … President Trump wants to break us so that the United States can own us,” he added.
Stephanie Carvin, an associated professor at the University of Carleton and former national security analyst, told CBC News that Canada’s changing relationship with the US. UU. It means that “we will have to do more with what we have” and make significant investments.
“As the United States is clearly entering a new direction, since it no longer values Canada as a partner, we will have to take care because the United States has watched us in the past and provided us with information that has been useful and useful,” he said.
In the future, said Carvin, Canada will need to consider not only the strengthening of its military but also their foreign intelligence efforts, because Canada can no longer be sure that the United States will share vital intelligence with its northern neighbor.
Carney says more defense ads to come
Carney’s campaign statement on the strengthening of Canada’s military was held on Tuesday at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax, which has built the vessels of the Patrol Offshore of the Navy and the Arctic of the Coast Guard and will soon begin to build a fleet of destroyers to replace the country’s frigates.
Much of what the liberal leader had to say was a repetition of existing plans and proposals, including the purchase of new submarines for the Navy and a proposal to give the members of the military a substantial increase.
However, there were some interesting suggestions that include a notion that Steel and Canadian aluminum would receive priority in defense production, and that the Coast Guard would receive a new monitoring mandate for paramilitary.
There was no reference in his statement to the previous promises to review and possibly buy only a handful of f-35 combatants and pivot another aircraft manufacturer to meet the needs of the Air Force. He suggested that the review was ongoing, but that the conclusion is how beneficial is the agreement with Lockheed Martin based in the United States for Canadian workers and the economy.
The new Navy destroyers will contain a combat management system built by Lockheed Martin. Carney, however, refused to say if that particular defense purchase would be reviewed together with the F-35.
The details of how the liberals wish to review, if they win on April 28, will be contained in the party platform, which has not yet been published, he said.
“We will have more defense ads with the platform, before the platform comes out,” said Carney. “So we will also expose all that. We will cost our broader electoral platform so you can see … how we are balancing the budget.”
