Ottawa, ON – Brig. Gen. Chris Horner, Commander, 3 Canadian Area Division, Division of Nationwide Defence, was a keynote speaker on the 2024 Area Sure convention on Wednesday, September 25.

Basic Horner took the chance to introduce himself to the area group after assuming the function as Commander, 3 Canadian Area Division initially of July of this yr.

He succeeded Brig. Gen. (Ret’d) Michael Adamson who had till not too long ago been Commander 3 Canadian Area Division/Joint Drive Area Part Commander who supplied the introduction.

Basic Horner confirmed wit, demonstrated he was a straighter talker and in addition confirmed his human aspect.

He touched on many themes together with the present worldwide order, the risks we’re all going through, together with saying “It’s not my job to terrify Canadians” and that “Canadians assume area is all the time there,” and that they’ll maintain occurring assuming it’s all the time there.

He additionally talked about {that a} technique for Nationwide Defence is forthcoming this fall together with a Defence Area Technique. He spoke candidly about China’s capabilities, Russia and nuclear weapons in area.

In direction of the top he talked about Canadian capabilities, strategic goals, priorities, and working throughout 4 nationwide domains, shifting paradigms, investing in surveillance of area, and significantly essential for this viewers, industrial area integration technique.

He concluded by saying area is difficult, area is superior, please dream the unattainable and we have now the watch.

Watch Brig. Gen. Horner’s Keynote