[buccaneer81]

the DEW line which has been operating continuously since the fifties without interruption. To say we are not contributing is factually incorrect.

What arrogance! As if you benevolently "donated" the DEW Line sites to protect we poor Americans. You were thinking about your own sorry hides. If we go down so do you. Tell that to Paul Martin.

[beaver fever]

Chill out dude it's impossible for a simple fact to be arrogant.

The DEW line is there because Diefenbaker agreed to focus Canadian military spending on missile defense against Soviet bombers at the behest of Eisenhower.

As far as I know we split the costs and the stations were manned by Canadian and SAC radar ops.

I'm saying that Canada has been on board MD from the beginning the disagreement is over the ramifications of this latest development without a treaty mechanism to control it.