This is absolutely key, what you just pointed out, because we talk about defence and defence investments, but we don't want to invest in defence. We don't want to defend anything. This is the whole point: We want to deter our adversaries and we want to change their minds because when we have to defend, that's going to be exceptionally costly—politically, economically and socially.
We know this as Canadians. We were there from day one in World War I and World War II. That is the reason we know what happens in Europe when the Europeans decide to fight their wars right down to the last Canadian, and we don't want to go there again. This is ultimately why we're investing in deterrence with the sort of no-harm capabilities that we have in collaboration with our European allies. We can provide a lot of the ecosystem that they are looking for.
