At the end of the day, people will look and our allies will look at our capabilities, which have not increased substantially in the past two years. Yes, we're doing things to upgrade surveillance in the Arctic, and that's important for the defence of North America, but we're not moving, for example, in the same direction that our Australian friends are moving. They are committed to increasing their defence spending by some 4%—I think that's correct—or to bring it up to 4% of GDP with their proposed acquisition of new nuclear-powered submarines.
I'm not suggesting that we should necessarily move in that direction, but we're playing a catch-up game and we're falling further behind, I'm afraid, even with the new commitments the government is making.