National Defence committee  We agree, and it's not a sequential or a linear series of steps, and one isn't to the exclusion of the other, so let me just clarify that really quickly. Yes, there are partnerships that NATO has established. There are partnerships for peace. There were certainly partnerships that were much trumpeted for the Libyan mission: the inclusion of the UAE, non-combat support by Morocco, and so on and so forth.

National Defence committee  NATO's boundaries end at the western shores of Canada and the United States. You never see any discussion about the Pacific dimension of NATO. It always seems to end on the western shores of France. That's one of the things we need to raise. With respect to article 5, and from a policy standpoint, the United States recognizes five domains of warfare: air, land, sea, space, cyber.

National Defence committee  Thanks, Paul. I'm going to talk a little about the Chicago summit, the main points that are going to come up, and some implications for Canada as a result of that. It's really important that we keep in mind the last three things Paul talked about. One is the landscape in which the strategic concept of 2010 is hitting, namely the fiscal constraints that are being felt across the alliance and decisions being made by countries based on fiscal demands.