Canada-US Defence Agreements and Amendments

Archived exchanges of notes and formal agreements between Canada and the United States related to defence cooperation. The collection includes documents covering subjects like amendments to the NORAD Agreement, reciprocal weapons-system testing, and joint undersea surveillance facilities. It was published by Global Affairs Canada and is archived as of March 2026, intended for research or recordkeeping.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the text of NORAD Agreement amendments for changes in aerospace warning and control commitments.
• Tracking the timeline of formal agreements on shared defence infrastructure like joint undersea surveillance facilities.
• Studying the language and provisions within documents on reciprocal weapons-system testing protocols.
• Examining the scope of cooperative activities between military services as described in the exchanges of notes.

Strengths

• Collection includes multiple formal agreement types (exchanges of notes, formal agreements) on coordinated defence planning.
• Documents cover several specific defence subjects (NORAD, weapons testing, surveillance, military service cooperation).

Limitations

• Data is explicitly archived and outdated, not updated since archival.
• Primary file format is PDF, requiring text extraction for computational analysis.
• Specific document count, publication dates, and temporal coverage range are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Canada, United States