Canada is talking to the US about joining its ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system, Carney says

TORONTO, ONT – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday his authorities is talking to the U.S. astir joining President Donald Trump's aboriginal Golden Dome rocket defence program.

The multilayered, $175 cardinal system would for the archetypal clip enactment U.S. weapons successful space. Trump said the erstwhile time helium expected the strategy to beryllium afloat operational by the extremity of his word successful 2029.

"Is it a bully thought for Canada? Yes, it is simply a bully to person protections successful spot for Canadians," Carney said.

Carney confirmed he's had talks with Trump astir it and said determination are discussions with elder officials. Trump said the Canadian authorities had contacted his medication indicating it wants to articulation the programme and that helium volition enactment with Ottawa to guarantee it contributes its “fair share.”

Golden Dome is envisioned to see ground- and space-based capabilities to observe and halt missiles astatine each 4 large stages of a imaginable attack: detecting and destroying them earlier a launch, intercepting them successful their earliest signifier of flight, stopping them midcourse successful the air, oregon halting them successful the last minutes arsenic they descend toward a target.

“It’s thing that we are looking astatine and thing that has been discussed astatine a precocious level." Carney said. “But not I’m not definite 1 negotiates connected this. These are subject decisions that person been taken successful that context, and we volition measure it accordingly.”

Carney warned that Canada faces imaginable missiles threats successful the “not-too-distant future” that could travel from space.

“Is Canada going to beryllium doing this unsocial oregon with the United States? Because with a Golden Dome, determination volition beryllium discussions that could person an interaction connected Canada, but Canada wouldn't beryllium a portion of them,” Carney said.

The Pentagon has warned for years that the newest missiles developed by China and Russia are truthful precocious that updated countermeasures are necessary. Golden Dome’s added satellites and interceptors — wherever the bulk of the program’s outgo is — would beryllium focused connected stopping those precocious missiles aboriginal connected oregon successful the mediate of their flight.

Canada and the U.S. are partners successful the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined enactment that provides shared defence of airspace implicit the 2 nations.

The recently elected Carney spent overmuch spent overmuch of the past fewer months saying the aged narration with the U.S. based connected steadily expanding integration is over. Trump has infuriated Canadians by saying Canada should beryllium the 51st state.

“We cooperate if indispensable but not needfully cooperate,” Carney said.

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