Again, the exam question answer, or the project to get to, is that Canada was always.... It's not one of before or after. It wasn't that Canada wasn't in the Indo-Pacific until the strategy and now we are. The idea was always to take a very significant step up in terms of our capacity to pursue our economic and security goals in the region.
That is the continuity piece. Any version for any government or engagement in the Indo-Pacific will be about that. What has changed, though, is the international environment since it was launched. We've had the deepening of the conflict in Ukraine. We've had conflict in the Middle East. We've had a different government come to office in the United States. Whether for Canada or for China and other actors, the balance of priorities and operational commitments will evolve with that.
Canada has continued, though, to deepen, as the colonel just spoke to, our security presence in the region. It continues to increase. We signed, again, just last year, the Minister of National Defence—