Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly said ahead of his trip to Whitehorse, Yukon that teams are currently working to “find and analyze” an object shot down on Saturday, which he said posed a “reasonable threat” to civil aviation.
“The safety of Canadians is our No. 1 priority, that’s why I made the decision to shoot down the object. It was a threat to civil aviation and a potential threat to Canadians,” Trudeau said in brief remarks on Sunday morning from the Ottawa airport.
The trip was unrelated to Saturday’s events comes just a day after Trudeau made the decision to down an “unidentified object” over the territory.
Trudeau ordered the object to whichever country arrived at it first to shoot down and was shot down by an American F-22 destroyed it at about 3:41 p.m. ET.
“To the best of our knowledge, this was the first time that a NORAD operation has downed an aerial object,” Defence Minister Anita Anand told a news conference on Saturday.
Trudeau did Without sharing any additional details about the nature of the object on Sunday, Trudeau only reportedly said “teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyze the object.”
“There’s still much to know about it, that’s why the analysis of this object is going to be very important,” he said.
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