https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/b2dcf5e900ed9723c9acd0491db5c0eb.pdf dae77a7c86f3a0e621bf8bae8e4992aa PDF Text Text 8.15(1) DFAIT Business SECRET (MAIN ITEM) Terrorist Attacks on the US: Speaking Note s for Minister Manley I want to bring you up to date on the status of Canadians who have been affected by recent events, to outline wha allies are doing, to look briefly at how Canada-US relations have been affected, and finally at the international agenda. 1) Status of affected Canadians: • We know that three Canadians died in the hijacked planes. Twenty-four who were at the World Trade Center are unaccounted for. Another 19 are unaccc unted for in the Greater New York area. The Ontario Chief Coroner has gone to New York to assist the Canadian Consulate C eneral in the identification of remains. We are workii g to get other experts from Quebec and New Brunswick on th< ground. We are keeping in touch with affected families, s nd providing assistance. My Department’s Operations Centre ha > received over 10,000 calls from Canadians seeking assistance and information. Our missions around the world were placed < >n a 24-hour emergency operations basis in order to j rovide assistance to stranded Canadians. Most are now bac c home. We have contingency plans for assisting Canadia is and evacuating staff should this become necessary. There ai e no Canadians on the ground in Afghanistan. Pakistan seems to be the first place where this could happen. We estimate t lere are 2500 to 3000 Canadians there now. CIDA funds man p projects in Pakistan. We are in the process of advising Canadians to evacuate areas 000119 �s.15(1) SECRET DFAIT Business in the north. Air travel out of Pakistan w ould be extremely complex. The British may put a naval ve »sel off the coast which could be of assistance. We will cooperate with the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand on any evaci lations. We have also upgraded security at our missions particularly in the Middle East. 2) What our allies are doing: • We will need to decide quickly on the le\ el and kind of military support we might provide. There is pote itial for Canadian casualties. Our resolve will be tested; an 1 we will need to build public support. NATO, Israel, Australia and others have stated they will consider support for military a ition. All nations except Iraq have condemned the attack. Prime Minister Blair has been very outspoken. There are reports of suspects being detained in Germany and Belgium. France has been very supportive. European politic d leaders continue to express firm solidarity with the US but a re urging care in the use of force. -2- 000120 �s.15(1) SECRET DFAIT Business 3) The Status of Canada-US Relations: • No formal request for humanitarian assi stance has yet been received from the US. To date, all counti ies are in the same boat: the offer has been made and they i re awaiting a request from the US Federal Emergency Manag jment Administration. (DND’s Disaster Assistance Relief Team remains on standby.) However, the US has made very specific requests to its NATO allies with regards to terrorism: prosecution ion of terrorists; stopping their movement; curtailing the flow of money to terrorists; sharing intelligence; extraditingg or deporting those wanted for crimes; supporting internati >nal counter-terrorism initiatives, ending any tolerance of state: or entities that support terrorism. -3- 000121 �s.13(1) s.15(1) SECRET DFAIT Business -4- 000122 �SECRET DFAIT Business I talked to Colin Powell twice and numerous other bilateral discussions, at very senior officials’ level , have taken place as well. Powell was well briefed on what Canada has done to help at the airports. I asked him to let me knc w immediately if any evidence of a Canadian connection becoi les known. 4) The International Agenda: Short Term: • Intelligence reports on the possibility of urther terrorists attacks on a larger scale continue to surface, leading to increased edginess in the US. Also, the IS has revised upward the threat assessment against their missions abroad. The crisis could have an impact on a nui iber of international summits. The General Assembly will go ihead, but without Foreign Ministers, to avoid protocol, tra ffic and security problems. Security for all other summ ts has to be reevaluated, including the forthcoming Cojmmonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the Francophone Summit, and our G8 events next year. President Chirac and the EU Presidency will visit Washington this week. The OAS Permanent Council meets tomorrow on this issue. The Italians proposed a special G8 sum nit on terrorism, but the Americans said that a G-8 leaders’ s atement would be enough at this time. The Russians have Circulated a draft statement which is short on specifics. W: are working on the draft to make it a strong, action-oriente 1 statement and it 5 000123 �S.15(1) SECRET DFAIT Business could be issued later this week. The US vf ill also expect terrorism to be high on the agenda of th Canadian G-8 year. There could be benefit in using the G8 to advance a Comprehensive Terrorism Convention,« omething we could think about for next year. There is also need to look at implementation of existing initiatives. 7e have two ratifications outstanding: the ConventioA Against Terrorist Financing; and the Convention against Ifombing. \ e should also strengthen control over potentially dang jrous exports by adopting catch-all provisions in our exp< rt control regulations. Long-Term: • Last week’s events have transformed th< international agenda, and will have far-reaching consequence* domestically as well. -6- 000124 �SECRET DFAIT Business With respect to follow-up to the attacks, t will be important that we take concrete initiatives: greater (resources for security, intelligence and law enforcement, possib e tightening of immigration and refugee determination, and perhaps increased defense expenditure. These events will affect all Canadians, ev|en if we manage the border and multilateral cooperation wel . We should not under-estimate the impact on our econoihy and the overall government agenda. Note: A document on the wider governmen implications is attached for your background. -7- 000125 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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