Thank you very much for the clarification.
Again, I would like to thank you for your long service in the Canadian Armed Forces, General.
I do have a question about the situation in the Pacific. Actually, we are looking at the Atlantic. We are surrounded in the North Atlantic by NATO countries, where we don't have any perceived threat. However, in the Pacific, we have nations who are building up their armies very strongly, with exceptional emphasis on the submarines.
As I know, the Chinese army is rebuilding their blue-water fleet. They are giving a lot of subsidies to the armed forces for doing up the armed forces blue-water fleet. Obviously, we have seen that the Americans have done the pivot to the Pacific, the gap between Alaska and the United States.
How are you assessing the threat, if there is any threat? As we know, the Chinese are flexing their muscles in the Scarborough Shoals of the Philippines, in Japan, and so on, and of course North Korea is becoming more aggressive. As for the Russians, they are not even friendly.
What is the perceived activity there? Should we call it a standoff?