RADARSAT-2
Space Surveillance

Aurora Aircraft
Aerial Surveillance

Canadian Rangers
Ground Enforcement

Upgrades
Acquisitions

References

This section provides reference to information that assisted in developing the following content:

North Warning System

• Backgrounder: North Warning System. May 31/02. Department of National Defence. November 27/08
  <Download PDF>.
• North Warning System. Pan Arctic Inuit Logistics Corporation. November 27/08
  <http://www.pail.ca/nws.html>.
• Dew Line Clean-up: restoring the north. March 25/08. Defence Construction Canada. November 27/08
  <http://www.dcc-cdc.gc.ca/english/pr_dew.html>.

RADARSAT-2

• RADARSAT-2. September 12/08. Canadian Space Agency. November 28/07
  <http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/default.asp>.
• Polar epsilon to assert Canada’s arctic sovereignty. January 10/08.  Department of National Defence. November 28/08
  <Download PDF>.

Canadian Rangers

• Canadian Rangers. October 09/08. Department of National Defence. November 28/08 
  <http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/LF/ENGLISH/7_5_1.asp>.
• Backgrounder – Expanding Canadian Forces Operation in the Arctic. August 10/07. Office of the Prime Minister. November 28/08
  <http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1785>.
• Tories take North seriously with new reserve unit: retired colonel. September 8/08. CBC News. November 28/08
  <http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/09/08/reserve-reax.html>.

Aurora Aircraft

• CP-140 Aurora. March 26/07. Department of National Defence. November 28/08 <http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/site/equip/cp140/default_e.asp>.
• Frank, Robert. Capt. “Canada Command completes largest deployment to date in the North.” The Maple Leaf September 7/07. November 28/08
  <http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/community/mapleleaf/vol_10/
  vol10_25/1025_08.pdf>.
• Remote-controlled aircraft would patrol Arctic: military. October 24/07. CBC News. November 28/08
  <http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/24/arctic-drones.html>.
• Nunavut taken aback by military plan for drone patrols. October 26/07. CBC News. November 28/08
  <http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/10/26/nu-drones.html?ref=rss>. 
• Minister Announces New Surveillance Equipment For Aurora Aircraft. September 6/08. Department of National Defence. November 28/08
  <Download PDF>. 

Upgrades

• Canada’s Coastlines: The Longest Under-defended Borders in the World: chapter one – Naval Surveillance-Arctic Surveillance. October/03. Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence. November 28/08
  <http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/defe-e/
  rep-e/rep17vol1part1-e.htm>.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces new offshore patrol ships. July 16/07. Office of the Prime Minister. November 28/08
  <http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=1742>.
• Prime Minister announces expansion of Canadian Forces facilities and operations in the Arctic. August 15/07. Office of the Prime Minister. November 28/08
  <http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=1784>.
• Northern tax break promised in federal budget. February 26/08. 
  CBC News. November 28/08
  <http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/02/26/north-budget.html>.
• Canada First Defence Strategy. December 22/08. Department of National Defence. November 28/08
  <http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/focus/first-premier/defstra-stradef-eng.asp>.