Of course, the Commonwealth is important, but you meet people where they are at. Would you interact with Vietnam through Canberra? These countries are not part of the rest of the Pacific.
On the point about Australia and the bang for the buck you get in the Pacific, if we engage with Japan, at best we could be the eighth or ninth most important trading partner of Japan. If you're in the Pacific, which costs a lot less and is highly strategically important, you can be the point person for other people who want to come in and understand the Pacific, including the EU. There are areas, for example, that speak French, like New Caledonia and French Polynesia, where Canada's bilingual profile could be particularly value-added.
New Caledonia is having a lot of problems. They have 20% of the world's nickel. When you're looking at how important these locations are, I would not go by population. One hundred thousand Americans died during World War II because of the strategic importance of the locations. We're looking at deep-sea mining. If you're looking at just resources, for example, you have situations like, again, New Caledonia.
It's so important for stability in the South Pacific.
With all due respect to my Australian friends, they have messed up so badly that we now have to look at the situation. The corruption of Pacific island leaders, in many cases, especially in the South Pacific, gets laundered through Australian banks and real estate, and they never do what the U.S. just did in designating illegal partners.