Kirsten Hillman, who is in Ottawa from her usual posting at Canada’s U.S. embassy to prepare for the talks, said air defence will be a key agenda item in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meetings next week with President Joe Biden
The White House and Prime Minister’s Office have released few details about the trip. A source with direct knowledge of the plans said that while Mr. Biden will arrive Thursday, the substantive events will take place Friday. Those are expected to include two meetings with Mr. Trudeau – one smaller one and another with a larger contingent of cabinet ministers and officials – an address to Parliament, a news conference and a large dinner on Friday evening.
Canada is also committed to efforts to modernize its dated air defence systems, the ambassador said. Because the system is integrated between the two countries, she said, speeding up doesn’t depend solely on Canadian action. The issue has become only more pressing since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine last year. Even before that, however, U.S. presidents have used their visits to Canada to push the prime minister of the day to prioritize defence spending.
She said the Biden administration wants Canada to be active in modernizing NORAD: “The speed and the scale are both important.” He added that Canada has a lacklustre track record with swiftly modernizing infrastructure, which is where much of the new money for NORAD is supposed to go: “We’ll have new F-35s within a decade, if we don’t hustle we won’t have the infrastructure to operate them.”
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