PM Martin of Canada gave his thumbs up for NORAD to share info with "whoever controls" the BMD system:
From the CBC
Canada has signed an amendment that will allow Norad to share information it gathers with the people running the U.S. missile defence program. But this doesn't mean that Canada is joining that program, Defence Minister Bill Graham said on Thursday.
But there is no denying that it is a stamp of approval as the critics say:
Steve Staples, a defence analyst with the Ottawa-based, anti-globalization group Polaris Institute, called the Norad amendment one of a series of "incremental decisions, each step taking Canada further and further into the missile defence system."
Here's the rationalization:
The decision to share information had to be made now, Graham said, because the Americans were prepared to build a new program that would have made Norad obsolete.
By making information available through Norad, the government is preserving Canada's binational partnership with the U.S., he said.
"Had to be made now" sounds like an ultimatum was delivered and that Canada caved. "Binational partnership" indeed!
Say where does Kerry Stand on BMD? Is this looney project going to be taken down in January?