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Submit Final Comments to the Government by:

Monday, September 15th, 2025

 

These may be the first of these types of installations so others in the rest of Canada may want to contact their local government officials as well.

Why Are We Concerned?

 

Over-the-horizon radar must use extremely powerful skywave radar systems, which bounce strong radar off the ionosphere and back to large areas of land for military operations.

Up until now, these types of radar facilities have been set up along the DEW line in the arctic, away from people. A new second line is planned in the south, blanketing populated and environmentally sensitive areas, and potentially much of Southern Ontario with 24/7 radar. This is the first site to be built, but they are planning more across Canada.

Additionally, these installations are not moveable, so they would be areas that could be potential targets if another country were to attempt to get past the NORAD detection system.

 

Public Consultation Comments Submission:

The public consultation was announced only on August 26th, with a total of four meetings on September 9th and 10th.

All final comments from the public must be given by September 15th.

This is very little time for public discussion. This is not being talked about in the news, and it seems the majority of the public are unaware this is even happening.

We hope you will help share this news and encourage others to participate in this serious Canada-wide discussion.

 

Important to Read:

Share your thoughts: Transmit site and preliminary receive site for the Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar Program in Southern Ontario. (It mentions health and safety, as well as environmental issues.)
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/allies-partners/norad/aothr.html

Fact sheet: NORAD modernization project timelines (and mentions radiation exposures)
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/allies-partners/norad/norad-modernization-project-timelines.html

Understanding Over the Horizon Radar (Helpful video to explain the technology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiF4AD8eipc

Canadian National Defence document (62 pages) from 2006 that talks about Over-the Horizon radar systems
https://scispace.com/pdf/a-canadian-perspective-on-high-frequency-over-the-horizon-3jjdx1ptre.pdf
Some Interesting Quotes From The Document Are:

• 4.4 Opposition by local population

Imposing HF installations are usually unpopular due to concerns about radiation hazards, escalation of hostility, and secret military agendas. To gain popular support for these systems, a two-pronged approach is necessary.

The first task is to publish material in the open literature about the systems and discuss the operations of these systems to the extent possible without revealing sen-sitive details about system performance. For unclassified aspects of the facilities, this effort can include public open houses for one day per year to allow interested people to tour parts of the facilities.

The second task is to employ local people in the maintenance and operations of the facilities. If classified aspects of the facilities can be suitably compartmentalized in separate (guarded) buildings, then local people can be employed for at least the unclassified aspects of the operation. Furthermore, local hotels, bed & breakfasts, and restaurants, can receive increased business by providing services to visitors to the sites. By engaging the local population in a constructive manner, the success of the project becomes consistent with the well-being of the community

• Radiation hazards are usually dealt with by fencing off the area where electromagnetic exposure exceeds maximum levels published in standards such as Canada Safety Code 6 or IEEE/ANSI C95.1-1992. For large HF installations, radiation levels may exceed safe levels up to a kilometre in front of the array.

At This Point, We Don’t Know … :

• The transmission power at the site – These systems can broadcast immense amounts of power from 100’s of kiloWatts to MegaWatts. It’s so much power that the transmit site cannot be used for reception.
• The projected areas of radar return – How much of Ontario is going to be exposed to this?
• Power density of radar returns
• What will the DND be doing to help people with EMR-S who cannot medically tolerate added radiation to their property and who live in these areas of radar return.
• Is it possible these radar installations could be moved south of our border, or into our far north, away from people? Should we be doing this at all?
• How will they ensure that the transmit radar will not affect aircraft systems that are descending into Toronto to land? In the past Display Units (cockpit screens) on certain aircraft had to be replaced because wi-fi, cell towers, weather radar and satellite systems were causing interference and blanking them out. Transmission power from the NORAD radar transmitters is massive, so how is this going to affect commercial and recreational aircraft flying anywhere near them?
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/10/01/2014-23231/airworthinessdirectives-the-boeing-company-airplanes
• What will happen to birds, insects, etc. that fly through the beam of the transmitter?
• Will the transmitter be on 24/7 or only in an emergency?

[In addition to the above September 15th submission] What Can You Do?
[excerpts:]

Contact key political officials: Prime Minister Mark Carney, Premier Doug Ford, your federal Member of Parliament (MP), your Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP), Minister of National Defence, David McGuinty as well as the Municipalities in the areas where these facilities will be located.

These may be the first of these types of installations so others in the rest of Canada may want to contact their local government officials as well.

Contact Information for Key Political Officials:

Prime Minster Mark Carney:
mark.carney@parl.gc.ca
• Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
• Fax: 613-941-6900

Premier Doug Ford
• https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/EN/feedback/default.aspx
• https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/doug-ford
• 416-325-1941 ( TTY/Teletypewriter: 1-800-387-5559)
• Premier of Ontario, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto ON M7A 1A1

Contact your Federal MP
• https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search

Contact your Ontario Provincial MPP
• https://www.ola.org/en/members/current#views-exposed-form-current-memberscurrent-members-grid

Minister of National Defence David McGuinty
• https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/david-j-mcguinty(9486)#contact
• david.mcguinty@parl.gc.ca
• Telephone: 613-990-8640
• Fax: 613-990-2592

Federal MP for Clearview Township (NORAD Reception Site) Terry Dowdall
• https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/terry-dowdall(105410)#contact
• terry.Dowdall@parl.gc.ca
• Telephone: 705-435-1809
• Fax: 705-435-6448

Federal MP for Kawartha Lakes (NORAD Transmission Site) Jamie Schmale
• https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/88770
• jamie.schmale@parl.gc.ca
• Telephone: 705-324-2400
• Fax: 705-324-0880

MPP for Clearview Township (NORAD Reception Site) Brian Saunderson
• https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/brian-saunderson
• brian.saunderson@pc.ola.org
• Tel.: 705-428-2134
• Fax: 705-428-0104
• Toll free: 800-268-7542

MPP for Kawartha Lakes (NORAD Transmission Site) Laurie Scott
• https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/laurie-scott
• laurie.scott@pc.ola.org
• Tel.: 705-324-6654
• Fax: 705-324-6938
• Toll free: 1-800-424-2490

Municipal Council Members for Clearview Township (NORAD Reception Site)
https://www.clearview.ca/government-committees/council

Municipal Council Members for Kawartha Lakes (NORAD Transmission Site)
https://www.kawarthalakes.ca/en/municipal-services/contact-a-councilmember.aspx

Contact for your own Municipality
• https://www.ontario.ca/page/list-ontario-municipalities

Warmly,
Barbara Payne, President
Electromagnetic Pollution Illnesses Canada Foundation (E.P.I.C.)

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♥️  Awareness. Know what & how to connect non-wirelessly, and help others know.
♥️ Caution. Use caution with all types of power.
♥️ Kindness. Be kind to yourself, others & the environment.

Thank you for helping everyone realize it’s better to prevent electrosmog.

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