Often the deployments start in Halifax and end up in Esquimalt. They travel around the world, conducting various operations. We never just send one warship to sail through the Taiwan Strait.
Just to reaffirm, the exercises we partake of—the multinational, multilateral co-operation activities with New Zealand, Australia and the Philippines—are in the south. Then we transit through the Taiwan Strait to conduct a similar exercise with Japan and South Korea. That is the most direct route. It's about 200 nautical miles and a 13-hour transit. We don't conduct any other provocative activities while we're on that transit. Although we could fly helicopters and do boat drills, we just sail at an economic speed through the Taiwan Strait so that we can get to the next operating area.
