Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We're talking a lot about security here, so I want to quickly look at one of the sections of Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy, which says to “make meaningful contributions to the region’s security...and enhance our defence and security relationships [and] bolster Canada's long-standing collaboration with, and contribution to, the Five Eyes.” It seems to me that some glaring things are notably not included in this. The two that pop out to me have both been mentioned before: AUKUS and the Quad.
I would love to hear from all the witnesses today on that, because to me it seems like a very large strategic mistake that Canada wasn't on the ground early on in both of these things. What can we do to try to fix that?