Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence



Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence
Ernie Regehr
December 1, 2003

Canadian policy has never focused on ballistic missile defence as a credible or even promising response to the threat of nuclear destruction via intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). Even so, Canadian officials are currently engaged in extensive discussions with the United States on how ballistic missile defence (BMD) might protect Canadians and how Canada might link to the ground-based, mid-course interception, ballistic missile defence system now being constructed by Washington.

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