For the next stage of post-September 11 supply chain security, Canada and the United States can better protect their mutual freight flows against terrorist penetration by engaging the logistics system on its own operational terms. A network-centric approach would match real-time data flows with cargo that is constantly moving through numerous hands and dispersed geographically across the globe.

Many studies in recent years have documented the decline of the Canadian Forces (CF). This publication addresses one of the ways by which the CF can be rebuilt: by acquiring what military planners call strategic lift. Because Canada is isolated by wide oceans from most of the trouble spots of the world and because Canada has no overseas bases, if the CF are to be deployed abroad, whether to fight wars or to engage in humanitarian actions, they must be sent there from home soil.

The numbers of people and amounts of money involved in the Gomery inquiry are larger than previously known.