National Post:

Canada will spend $4.9 billion over the next six years to modernize the Norad, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Monday in pledging to invest $40 billion over the next two decades on the joint U.S.-Canadian North American defence organization.

Norad is a joint military command with the U.S. that provides a surveillance system used to identify attacks from land and sea on North American soil. It was created during the Cold War to protect against a Soviet attack. It was also designed for the threats of the day, long range bomber threats from the Soviet Union, and doesn’t protect against newer generations of missiles. Its equipment was last modernized in 1985.

Anand said the new system of sensors “essentially push our line of sight further north, ensuring we will be able to respond to fast moving threats like hypersonics.”

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