Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here.
Minister, the Prime Minister was quoted in the media as saying that Canada would never ever meet its 2% commitment in regard to our spending for military aid. Are you finding that those types of comments are having an impact on our ability to be involved in groups like AUKUS and Quad? Is that why we're being left out of so many multilateral meetings and why we're not invited to the table?