Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have three questions I'm going to try to address with the witnesses.
The first has to do with the north Pacific, particularly looking at Japan and South Korea as strategic partners. The second would be lessons learned from Australia and New Zealand. On the third one, I'm going to push a bit more on the Pacific Islands as a place of real interest.
As to the north Pacific, Professor Nagy, you're in Japan. You've had a career there. Can you talk a bit about where Japan is vis-à-vis Canada? We've had recent high-level visits. We have a relatively new government in Japan. How do you see the Canada-Japanese bilateral relationship evolving over the next few years?