Sitting where I am, as an official responsible for the Indo-Pacific, I would say that I have a lot of sympathy for colleagues who have been working on Europe and who have been working on the Middle East. It's been a busy year. I know that our minister is on the road almost constantly, with a very heavy list of objectives but also reacting to the world as it is.
I think it's very clear that she has not self-imposed any kind of deadline, but she has made it very clear that she would like to come back with an update. We've been active in providing advice. She has been active in consulting stakeholders, organizations and foreign governments. There's a lot of work under way, but there's also a lot happening in the world.
In the meantime, I think what should be understood—I hope—by the members of this committee or the public is that this is a five-year funded strategy. The funding is across 17 departments. That funding, those tools and those initiatives continue until they don't. There's a lot of work that will continue. I think it's reasonable to expect that the original objectives of the strategy—like diversification—will continue, and the government is doubling down on those.
I would just caution the members of the committee on seeing some kind of major before-and-after moment. This is an evolution of a strategy that the government, in its own activity today, continues to double down on, be it in trade diversification or economic security partnerships.