Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad, Switzerland, Saturday June 15, 2024. Switzerland is hosting scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out the first steps toward peace in Ukraine.
It initially took Canada four months to get into the queue after deciding to join a plan by the United States to buy urgently-needed National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems for Ukraine.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine in Stansstad, Switzerland, on June 15. An air defence system Canada promised to Ukraine in January 2023 still hasn't arrived.
Anand announced the planned $406-million purchase in January 2023, but as the Defence Department recently told CBC News, the federal government didn't transfer funds to the United States to pay for the system and start the process until March 2023, at the end of the fiscal year. Washington, however, could not begin to negotiate a contract with the manufacturers until it had both its own funds and Canada's money in hand.The Liberal government has faced repeated criticism for the glacial pace of acquiring the capability, especially as the civilian death toll in Ukraine increases.
"Ours will be among that tranche of deliveries and we'll immediately get it to Ukraine" in early 2025, the minister added. U.S. defence officials were reluctant because the legislation requires them to demonstrate how long-term contracts save money, and — in the case of donations to Ukraine — that is difficult to establish. Complying with TINA, according to the publication Defence One, adds another six to nine months to the procurement process.
Once in action, the NASAMS had a 100 per cent success rate intercepting drones and cruise missiles from Russia, Austin told the Halifax conference where he struck the deal with Canada to finance an additional system. "We've not faced the prospect of our own countries being attacked en masse with air delivered effects, so missiles, bombs, that kind of thing. That situation has now ended, and in many ways we find ourselves back in a similar situation to where we were during the Cold War, where we faced significant air threats and we faced significant missile threats."pledges to acquire ground-based air defence systems to protect critical civilian infrastructure.
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