Marie-Danielle Smith
The secretary general of NATO says the military alliance will be there to protect Canada, if called upon, in the event of a nuclear threat from North Korea.
Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is “extremely aware of the threat” from North Korea to Canada.
“We are NATO’s alliance, which is there to protect and defend all allies against any threat, including of course Canada,” he said, before reiterating the alliance’s support for diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions that put pressure on North Korea.
Stoltenberg’s comments come weeks after an emergency meeting of the House of Commons defence committee heard a NORAD deputy commander say the Americans don’t consider it their policy to protect Canada in the event of a missile attack.
The Conservative party’s public safety critic, Pierre Paul-Hus, was in Bucharest for general assembly meetings all weekend. He prompted Stoltenberg’s remarks with a question, during an open plenary Monday, about whether North America could count on support from the alliance amid heightened rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea.
http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/nato-is-there-to-protect-canada-if-north-korea-poses-a-threat-secretary-general-tells-conservative-critic
