Liberal MP Chan dies passes away

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Liberal MP Arnold Chan, who has just died of cancer, was one of the country’s most devoted servants.

The prime minister says he is deeply saddened by the death of a man he describes as a tireless advocate for Canadians. Chan, 50, leaves his wife, Jean Yip and their three sons, Nathaniel, Ethan and Theodore as well as his parents and other family members. Trudeau offered his deepest condolences to all.

Chan learned he had nasopharyngeal carcinoma not long after he first won his Torontoarea seat of ScarboroughAgincourt in a 2014 byelection.

He revealed the cancer had returned in March 2016.

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Under current U.S. policy, the American military has been directed not to defend Canada in the event it was targeted in a ballistic missile attack, says the latter country’s top officer at the North American Aerospace Defence Command.

“We’re being told in Colorado Springs that the extant U.S. policy is not to defend Canada,” said Lt.-Gen. Pierre St-Amand, deputy commander of Colorado-based Norad. “That is the policy that’s stated to us. So that’s the fact that I can bring to the table.”

St-Amand delivered that revelation Thursday during an appearance before the House of Commons defence committee, which is studying the extent to which Canada is ready for an attack by North Korea.

The study comes after several provocative nuclear and ballistic missile tests by North Korea, which have stoked fears Canada could end up in the middle of a