Despite the ballyhoo that surrounded last year's announcement, it's becoming clear that the modernization of North American air defense systems — a plan to spend $4.9 billion over six years — has a long way to go and a number of key technical obstacles to overcome.
And the planned air defense upgrade was a key talking point for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Defense Minister Anita Anand and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly at the NATO summit in Madrid.
In the months since, however, some of the challenges facing that multi-billion-dollar defense makeover have become glaringly obvious — especially in Canada.
The goal of the modernization programme is to create a layered defense over the Far North that will guard against strategic bombers (the kind NORAD was created to counter more than seven decades ago) but also ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles — the kind of weapons we've seen pummeling Ukraine.
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