Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Morgan, we regularly discuss our meetings with members of the G7, as well as those with our Five Eyes partners. In my first few years in politics, I attended a number of North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, meetings. I, personally, had the opportunity in Bucharest to ask the Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Stoltenberg, a question about defence.
NATO focuses mainly on Europe, but in 2018, we received threats from North Korea, and I asked Mr. Stoltenberg whether NATO was going to intervene on behalf of the western side of the alliance. He was taken aback by my question because Canada had never been one of the countries that could come under threat.
On the cybersecurity front, we rely heavily on our American counterparts. Internationally, when you speak with NATO members, do you discuss the respective capacity of members to assist Canada in defending against attacks from China?
Russia is another concern, but we are here today to focus on China.
Is Canada truly interconnected with the United States?