I can't speak to what's in Canada's national interest from my perspective. From an intelligence perspective, what we would want to be able to do when we look at a particular mission set of any kind is to look at the kinds of forces we might be deploying into that area. First and foremost, we would look at what is going on in that area and help National Defence and the government come to a decision about what kinds of forces are necessary to achieve what the government would like to achieve there, so to define the context for the government. Then, once those decisions have been made around wanting to deploy and what kinds of forces you want to deploy, as a force generator, what are the things we would want to put in there from an intelligence perspective to ensure force protection and to make sure that the commanders have the information they need to make the operational decisions to make the mission a success?
On November 3rd, 2016. See this statement in context.