Mr MacKay predicted that the Russian expedition would not bear fruit, adding: "There is no threat to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic... we're not at all concerned about this mission.
But humanitarian organizations operating in the Mediterranean remain concerned about their mission.
LF: The ones I'm most concerned about are the mission to Europa and the Terrestrial Planet Finder.
There was a delay of a few days in issuing the order to plan the operation when the French became concerned about taking on missions outside of Europe.
Gen. Dempsey, however, told the committee that while he's concerned about the effect of sequestration on the military, he was not as concerned about it for this mission.
The reported said: "The United Nations Mission remains deeply concerned that chemical weapons were used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arabic Republic, which has added yet another dimension to the continued suffering of the Syrian people".
"Older physicians and medical scientists who came of age before the end of the 1980's tend to be more concerned about the public service mission of academic medical centers than their students, who are very much the product of the concept of medicine as a business," Dr. Caplan said.
The Trump administration takes a bit of a different stance: OK, forget about those kinds of restrictions, we must focus on the fight, and we'll be less concerned over the risk of mission creep.
Since the engineers who run the shuttle missions are more concerned with achieving their project's goals than with safety issues, it is clearly imperative to strengthen the independent safety office inside NASA.
