Transcript Canadian complicity in BMD

No Means Yes
Exposing Canadian Complicity in the
“Ballistic Missile Defense”
Weapons Development Program
Richard Sanders
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
http://coat.ncf.ca
“The reports of my death
are greatly exaggerated”
Mark Twain
A few headlines on the alleged demise of BMD
“Canada says 'no' to missile defence: Martin” CTV.
“Canada won't join missile defence plan” CBC.
“It's no to missile plan” Toronto Star
“Canada shuns US missile system”
BBC (UK)
“Canada Rejects Missile Shield Plan”
Washington Post (US)
“Canada refuses to join US missile
defense program”
Xinhua (China)
“Canada won't join U.S. missile
defense system”
Asian Political News (Japan)
Generic Daily News, February 24, 2005
Obituary Notice
Ottawa — After a long
and painful illness of
protracted protest, the
whole debate about
Canada’s potential role
in BMD met an abrupt and
fatal end today.
In lieu of flowers,
the government kindly
requests that all
Canadians (especially
peace activists) let the
issue rest in peace and
accept its word on faith
that Canada is not already
involved in, and will not
join, the massive, U.S.-led
“missile defense” weapons
development program.
"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make.
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
"The pure
and simple truth
is rarely pure
and never
simple.”
Oscar Wilde
Not-so-pure-and-simple truth
• Canadian government
• Canadian war industries
• Canada’s armed forces
Complicit in the
• Creation
• Design
• Research
• Development
• Testing
• Maintainenance
• Operation
• Deployment
U.S. and NATO
BMD weapons systems
By “Just
SAYING No,”
the Canadian
government
• Killed public debate
• Quelled anti-BMD
protests
• Hid its existing complicity
• Dissipated dissent in
Liberal Party
• Shored up support for
faltering minority
government
Portrait of the Activist as a Young Man
"We're part of
it [BMD] now,
and the
question is:
What more do
we need? . . .
I believe we've
given in large
measure what
the Americans
want . . .”
Frank McKenna, Canada's Ambassador to U.S.
Media conference, February 22, 2005
“The U.S. has . . . decided to
proceed with deployment of a
missile defence system.
This is their right, and we
understand and respect their
decision . . .
After careful consideration
. . . we will not participate
in the U.S. ballistic missile
defence system.”
Pierre Pettigrew
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
February 24, 2005
Prime Minister
Paul Martin
Outside
House of
Commons
February 24,
2005
“We are announcing today that Canada will not take part
in the proposed ballistic missile defence system . . .
Let me be clear, we respect the right of the United States
to defend itself and its people.”
“No” to what exactly?
Then-Opposition leader Stephen Harper
“The government
has managed to
announce it is in
missile defence
and not in missile
defence in the
very same week
...
What further
participation
is it that the PM
said no to?”
“He now wants the
world to know he
said no to
something
...
do us the honour
of telling us
exactly what it is
that he
said no to.”
“That is the kind of decisiveness we get.
We still do not know what they have said no to.”
“The Prime Minister's
use of the word ‘no’
is like Bill Clinton's
use of the word ‘it.’
Regardless of what the
Prime Minister now
claims, we are
irrevocably part of
missile defence.”
Gordon O'Connor
Former Conservative Defence
critic,
Now Minister of National
Defence
House of Commons February
24, 2005
“Ottawa
won’t be
taking part
in the U.S.
ballistic
missile
defence
system…”
“We're not prohibiting the development of it.
We respect the American choice . . .
I would be very pleased if
Canadian business can
contribute . . . that's very good
We're not saying we
don't agree with the U.S. . . .
We're not being judgmental here
We respect their choices.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew
The House, CBC Radio
February 26, 2005
Mock Warheads
These cheap balloon decoys, like false words,
can easily overwhelm and deceive our defences.
The term “Missile Defense”
is a Linguistic Shield . . .
. . . cleverly designed to protect the largest
weapons-development program in world history.
Sword
and
Shield
“I am pleased that Congress
and the Department of Defense
Bottom-up Review have
prioritized our development
and fielding of BMD systems.
We all agree
Theater Missile Defense
is the top priority.”
General Charles A. Horner
• Commander-in-chief, NORAD Command
• Commander, Air Force Space Command
• Commander-in-chief, Space Command
Senate Armed Services Committee
April 20, 1994
North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organisation
March 11, 2005: two weeks
after the Canadian
government’s phoney "no" to
BMD, NATO publicly admits
that it is building its own
“deployable theatre missile
defense capability to give
protection to troops against
incoming missiles.”
Two incarnations of
NATO’s BMD project:
CAESAR and MAJIIC
1995: a few NATO
members began
integrating technology
for Theater Missile
Defense
1999: Canada officially
joined and began
providing the world’s
only satellite system
used in the project,
RADARSAT.
Canadian Space Agency
The CSA considers
RADARSAT to be its
crowning achievement.
RADARSAT cost Canadian
taxpayers about $1.2 billion.
RADARSAT-2 will target alleged
weapons sites during first-strike
attacks in TMD operations.
Departments of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade
Industry Canada
Department of National Defence
• Funds R&D of “missile defence” systems
• Joined “missile defense”-related
war games with U.S. and NATO
• Building interoperability for
participation in future
“missile defense” operations
David Pratt,
Minister, DND
(2003-2004)
Assured U.S. of Canada’s commitment to:
“increased government-to-government
and industry-to-industry cooperation
on missile defence”
Defence Research and Development Canada
DRDC Annual Report, 1998-1999, page 24
National Research Council
The Quantum Well Infrared
Photodetector (QWIP) project is:
“a key contributor to the
collaborative work with the
Ballistic Missile Defence
Organization . . . [and has]
significant implications for
future exploitation to support
U.S. Space-Based Infrared
Surveillance Systems,
surveillance from space and
missile defence applications.”
Dr. HC Liu
Canada Pension Plan
Through the
CPP, we are
forced to invest
billions in
war production,
including the
world’s top
weapons
industries
http://coat.openconcept.ca
Lockheed Martin (US)
Boeing (US)
Northrup Grumman (US)
BAE Systems (UK)
Raytheon (US)
General Dynamics (US)
EADS Netherlands
Honeywell (US)
Halliburton (US)
Finnemeccanica (Italy)
United Technologies (US)
L-3 Communications (US)
Computer Sciences (US)
General Electric (US)
Rolls-Royce (UK)
Mitsubishi (Japan)
Canadian
War Industries*
* Never refer to these
companies with the
euphemistic adjective:
“defence.”
ATCO Frontec Corp
Provides operations and
maintenance support services
for world’s most important
“missile defense” radar stations.
Fylingdales, UK
Massachusetts, US
Thule, Greenland
Alaska, US
California, US
AUG Signals Ltd
Produces equipment for target recognition.
Used for “early missile warning,
detection recognition and tracking,
anti-ballistic missile defense.”
Micronet News (October 2002)
Government funding:
• Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council
• Defence Research and Development Canada
• Department of National Defence
• Canadian Space Agency
Dr. George A. Lampropoulos,
CEO and President, AUG Signals
One of “Top 50 people in the Capital”
Ottawa Life Magazine (March 2005)
Bristol
Aerospace Ltd
Produces rockets
used as targets to test
“missile defense”
weapons systems
Excalibur
Black Brant
Two-stage,
ballistic missiles
used as targets in U.S.
“missile defense”
weapons testing and
training exercises
since 1999
Creation of this missile
funded by Canadian
government in 1957.
Used since 1998 for
“missile defense”
weapons tests
CAE Ltd
STRIVE
Produces at least three
computer simulation products
used by Boeing to develop
new-and-improved “missile
defense” weapons systems
One of the world’s top war industries,
CAE has been heavily subsidised by
Canadian taxpayers, including about
$200 million from Industry Canada.
CMC Electronics Cincinnati
One of world’s leading subcontractors for
electronic components in rockets used to test
“missile defense” weapons systems
Heather Reisman (CEO Indigo-Chapters), Martin and Schwartz
• 1998 - 2004: CMC EC controlled by ONEX Corp,
Canada’s 4th largest company
• ONEX run by Canadian billionaire Gerry Schwartz,
who was Paul Martin’s top fundraiser
COGNOS Inc
Since 2001, has provided “business intelligence solutions” for Boeing,
the “primary systems integrator” for the entire “missile defense” program
Cognos software handles “all aspects” of Boeing’s:
• Financial and manufacturing operations
• Indirect and direct cost management
• Financial planning
• Staffing management
• Factory management
COM DEV Ltd
• Canada’s largest exporter of satellite communications equipment
• Major supplier for military satellites
• Lists “missile defense” as one of the uses of its products
• Only Canadian company thanked in Vision for 2020
• Leading producer for military satellite
communications program
• Liberal government gave more than $550
million to this project
• Essential for fighting nuclear war and for
using “missile defense” weapons systems
DRS Technologies Inc
SIRIUS Naval Infrared Missile Defense System:
• Detects, tracks and targets missiles
• Funded since 1995 by Canadian and
Dutch governments
• Developed for use on Canadian,
Dutch and German warships
• DND providing $270 million by 2009
• Three DRDC facilities have collaborated on it
“Our work on the SIRIUS program, has
positioned DRS as a key supplier of
systems for missile defense that are
critical for Canadian and allied
international fleet operations.”
Mark S. Newman,
Chair, President and CEO, DRS Technologies
EMS Technologies Canada Ltd
In 2001, Forbes business
magazine highlighted it
as one of three
“Star Wars Stocks”
most likely to benefit from
Bush’s support for
“missile defense.”
Its top clients are the “Big Four”
“missile defense” contractors:
Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin
and Northrop Grumman
Formerly part of Spar Aerospace,
Canada’s largest space company:
• prime contractor for RADARSAT-1
• top subcontractor for RADARSAT-2.
ITS Electronics Inc
Since 1999, government funding
has resulted in low-phase noise
amplifier (targeting) products
used in two major
“missile defense” weapons
Over $1 million from three
Canadian government agencies:
• DRDC
• Industry Canada’s Technology
Partnerships
• National Research Council
THAAD
THAAD
EKV
Lockheed Martin
Canada Ltd
LMC is a subsidiary of the world’s
• Number 1 war industry
• Number 2 BMD contractor
Since 1998, LMC has supplied
VISTA for the US Navy’s
AEGIS weapons system:
• VISTA is a weapons training
and simulation system
(paid for with $90 million from
Canadian taxpayers)
• AEGIS weapons are the backbone of
the U.S. Navy’s “missile defense”
weapons program
AEGIS
Weapon System
SM-3 launched from
USS Lake Erie
during a
Missile Defense Agency
Ballistic Missile Defense
weapon system test
MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates
• Canadian taxpayers have paid about 90% of the $1.2 billion for RADARSAT-1 and -2
• RADARSAT-1 data used by U.S. weapons during Yugoslav, Afghan and Iraq wars
• RADARSAT-2 will target alleged missile sites for first-strike attack in future wars
• Such pre-emptive “counterforce operations” are part of Theater Missile Defense
When the Canadian
government privatised
RADARSAT-1 and -2,
giving them to MDA,
it was 100% owned by
Orbital Sciences, a top U.S.
In 2000, pro-BMD politician , David
BMD weapons contractor.
Emerson, joined MDA’s Board
All global and U.S. sales of RADARSAT
data were licensed to ORBIMAGE,
a U.S. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences
ORBIMAGE then filled its executive
positions with retired U.S.
Air Force officers who had spent
decades promoting
“missile defense” programs for the:
• Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
• Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
• Missile Defense Agency
Meggitt Defence Systems Canada
“The Vindicator”
A “missile defense” target system
Since 1999, Meggitt
Canada has sold these
Uninhabited Aerial
Vehicles,
to the U.S. Navy
Used as targets
in at least 17 “tracking
and missile firing events”
to test AEGIS
“missile defense”
weapons
Meggitt Canada is the
“Canadian Centre of
Excellence for Targets
and Unmanned Vehicles”
NovAtel Inc
2001-2003: NovAtel sold “missile & space systems”
for “R&D, test and evaluation” of BMD
GPS beacons used in “military applications such as
. . . missile tracking” (NovAtel’s 2003 Annual Report)
“Real warheads in an attack
would not carry such helpful beacons”
Pentagon official, 2001
In 2001, physicist
Nira Schwartz,
blew the whistle on
faked BMD tests.
She was fired the
next day.
In 2001, ONEX,
led by Canadian
billionaire
Jerry Schwartz,
took control of
NovAtel
In 2002, Industry Canada gave $17 million to CMC (NovAtel’s parent),
adding to more than $100 million in previous government handouts.
QWIPTECH
Infrared sensors for detecting and
targeting BMD weapons and
distinguishing missiles from decoys
In 2001, it acquired “an exclusive worldwide license”
for QWIPs developed with BMDO funding.
HC Liu,
a senior scientist
at Canada’s
NRC, joined
QWIPTECH’s
“Scientific
Advisory
Board”
in 2000
Dwight Duston,
QWIPTECH’s
top scientist since
2000, previously
worked for
Reagan’s
SDIO and was
the BMDO’s
Deputy Director
of Technology
Telemus Inc
Produces the “Coho simulator family,”
a “Radar Target and Electronic
Countermeasures simulation” system used by
weapons designers to develop and test
targeting “seekers”
in the warheads of BMD weapons
C
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h
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• DRDC funded its first
contracts in the mid-1980s
and then transferred patents
and licensing agreements
Coho
• Owned by Northrop
Grumman, one of the
“Big Four” BMD contractors
.
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“It ain't what you
don't know,
that gets you
into trouble.
It's what you
know for sure,
that just ain't so.”
Mark Twain