Posters for the proposed Golden Dome in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, on May 12.

Canada and the North American military command it shares with the United States risk being marginalized if Ottawa fails to ensure a commanding role for NORAD in Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile-defence project, a Commons committee heard Thursday.

This week, the President announced that the United States was working with Canada on the project to combine all the U.S.’s existing missile defences and expand them, including with interceptors in outer space, to better counter ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles.

Defence Minister David McGuinty later told a Toronto audience that he prefers to call it a “continental shield” and that Ottawa and Washington are still working out how such a

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