I hear you from the Canadian perspective, but what about from the African perspective? The AU just published a paper entitled “Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want”. By “we”, I assume the AU is speaking from its own perspective. I understand pulling our multi-siloed Canadian government approach into a more comprehensive approach, but do we go to all of Africa, or do we go to a subregion?
You mentioned the Indo-Pacific, but that's not all of Asia. I never hear of Thailand, Korea or Australia talking about a North American strategy; it's always more specific.
Do we go broadly pan-African, or do we zero in on a subregion or what we can do to bring expertise to the table?