The Beechcraft King Air planes will be outfitted with sensors and equipment to intercept cellphone and other electronic transmissions.
Exact deployments will be determined once the planes are operational, he added.
McKelvey said initial training had been done, with the final portion to be completed once the aircraft are delivered. Le Bouthillier said the special forces training was already planned before the Ottawa protests and to have cancelled the flight would have been wasting money. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the flights were part of military training, but said the plane was not involved in surveillance of demonstrators. He said the questions from Conservative MPs were “dangerously close to misinformation and disinformation.”
Canadian special forces had access to similar aircraft in Afghanistan to track and target insurgents. The U.S. military operates similar surveillance aircraft.
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