Canada Not Equipped to Monitor Potential Russian Missile Threats in Arctic: Senate Committee

A Russian Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile system rides through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2017. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

There are “serious questions” surrounding Canada’s capacity to monitor potential threats of Russian hypersonic missiles in the Canadian Arctic, says the Senate National Security Committee.

Sen. Tony Dean, the committee’s chair, spoke to reporters during a press conference in Ottawa on June 28 about a report the committee tabled that day, titled “Arctic Security Under Threat: Urgent needs in a changing geopolitical and environmental landscape.”