Anita Anand says new 'over-the-horizon' radar system will beef up Arctic warnings
Canada’s Defence Minister Anita Anand said Wednesday the discovery of apparent spy buoys in Canada’s Arctic and the shooting down of a possible spy balloon over the Yukon highlight the need to protect the country’s sovereignty in the North.
Anand made her comments after a recent report in the Globe and Mail indicated the Canadian military discovered and retrieved Chinese “monitoring buoys” in the Arctic this fall. Canada is investing almost $40 billion in NORAD modernization and continental defence, Anand said, which will include a new “Northern approaches surveillance system” which will replace the existing NORAD early warning system.
Anand said because the debris hasn’t been recovered, it’s impossible to know for sure if the balloon was a spy balloon, a research balloon or something totally unrelated.
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