President Donald Trump left out a key detail this week when he outlined his plans for a massive missile and air defense shield over the continent: He can’t build it without Canada.

Ottawa has historically funded about 40 percent of NORAD investments, according to VanHerck, and is putting $38 billion into the command to add new radars in the north over the next two decades. Without those investments — and additional sensors that can peer over the North Pole — officials believe the U.S. will have trouble putting together a credible North American air defense.

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    20 hours ago

    We should charge them rent and a user’s fee. Fee to use our airspace. Per flying object they send over it.

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      17 hours ago

      Oh. And it’s only ever staffed by Canucks, and they’ve all got kill-switches; like actual power-off switches.

      I really think I’m done with hosting non-commonwealth soldiers here. We’re not 2020 Greenland.

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      Maybe the world UN organization would come up with a method to tax any EMF radiation sent over one country by another for purposes of obtaining data? We now have the technology to detect and track this back to source.