Blacklock's Reporter

Fears of a Y2K computer crash prompted then-Defence Minister Art Eggleton to put 30,000 troops on standby, according to newly-declassified records. Confidential accounts of 1999 meetings show cabinet braced for emergencies from subway shutdowns in Toronto to sub-Arctic power blackouts as date timers in computers marked the changeover to the year 2000: “An inadvertent launch of nuclear missiles is highly unlikely.”