Canada looking at investments in Golden Dome

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00:00The Ambassador also said that there haven't been formal talks on the Golden Dome.

00:05Should Canada take part in that project, and how much would you be willing to spend on that?

00:10Okay, well, I'm not going to put a price tag on the second part of your question.

00:15I think I'll say the following about the situation with air defense or ballistic missile defense,

00:23intercontinental ballistic missile defense, broader defense against, including potential missiles

00:30that in the not-too-distant future could come from space.

00:35I mean, these are some of the threats that our nation faces.

00:39We take those threats seriously.

00:41We take our responsibilities as a government seriously, as I just said.

00:45It's one of the reasons why we made the commitment back in March for the over-the-horizon radar,

00:50the first phase of the over-horizon radar.

00:52system, and that was an independent decision that we took.

00:57We are conscious that we have an ability, if we so choose, to complete the Golden Dome

01:06with investments and partnership, and it's something that we are looking at

01:12and something that has been discussed at a high level, but I'm not sure one negotiates on this.

01:19These are military decisions.

01:22They say that they have teams that are very intense.

01:28They give us some kind of an idea of how different things they use to deploy forward to landing with,

01:31So, of course, this is training魚's avons, and the initialatsu training will be able to explore.