Mr. Chair, as members of this committee are well aware, the minister committed to updating the Indo-Pacific strategy when she met with the committee last fall. Since then, a lot of work has been under way. To directly answer your question, we've provided advice to the minister, so I won't speak about the details of it because it's still in that context, but there are two things I'd like to emphasize.
One is the intention of the original document. If you look at the strategy, including funding—it's more than just a document, as committee members know well—it was done in a way that we would make course corrections and update it as we go. It's my full expectation that the update is as much in the action set as it is in new documents.
With that said, the minister has been very busy consulting across the country—she was Vancouver last week with her colleagues in the region—with a range of stakeholders. I know this committee can expect to hear more about the format and the form of the update to come.
