Thank you.
For me, it is fundamentally about the changes that have happened in the U.S.—the election of President Trump and the fundamental change to the way the U.S. exercises its power and its relationships with allies. Obviously, there is a change in the Canada-U.S. relationship, which is necessitating a new approach to foreign policy by Canada, and a change in alliances more generally.
We're seeing this much more immediately in Europe, but that change is also coming to the Indo-Pacific. There is a lack of reliance on the U.S. alliance structure globally, including in the Indo-Pacific. The way Canada now has to exercise its own foreign policy, from the perspective of gaining strategic autonomy, diversifying and reducing its overreliance, necessitates having a new look at how the Indo-Pacific strategy is positioned.
That came in at the time of the Biden administration, when the alliance structure was at its strongest in many years. We're no longer there.