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My father served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for 11 years as a jet fighter pilot and as a squadron commander of CF-100s at various air force bases.

What we did do was sell them on probably the best possible program we'll ever get, and that was the three bases, Portage la Prairie and Moose Jaw.And the one that really sucked them up and they really wanted was the ability to get in on the ground, but they wanted the advanced-level training at Cold Lake, which we'd established as one of the premier airbases in the world for advanced pilot training, meaning jet fighter pilots.

Question No. 90 Hon. Larry Bagnell: Since January 2006 to present date have Canadian aircraft responded to near border violations by foreign aircraft and, if so: (a) what was the date and location of each incident; (b) what was the response by Canadian aircraft, including the number of aircraft involved and the point of contact with the foreign aircraft; (c) was Canadian airspace actually breached and, if so, to what extent; (d) what was the country of origin of each of the implicated aircraft; (e) who ordered each of the interceptor flights and what was the rationale behind the threat risk; (f) what was the purported mission of eac ...[+++]h of the implicated foreign aircraft; (g) what was the outcome of each interception, the cost of each response mission, the damage to Canadian aircraft if any and what were the risks involved for the pilots; (h) for each incident, was a diplomatic note filed with the country in question and what was the response from the involved country; and (i) under the same criteria used above what is the response to any incursions or near incursions into Canadian territory by naval vessels or land based forces?

If fighter jets are not now needed to shoot down Soviet bombers, they are needed to protect our major cities from terrorist attacks.