Canada and allies pay two to four times as much per piece of equipment that we procure than the United States does because we don't have the economies of scale. NATO works by national defence procurement ecosystems, but there are opportunities for collaboration that are not just about the sort of innovation that my colleagues have talked about but also ensuring that we get the best return, the best value for money for the Canadian taxpayer. I think our European colleagues are very much able to underwrite some of the key critical infrastructure and major project investments that we are looking to make in Canada in return for our delivering for them. We can do this with long-term 20-year to 30-year contracts the way other allies have done this, which is in a way that requires relatively little government investing and provides the sort of security for the capital that is being invested that will generate the collective payoffs that we're all looking for.
That's what a strategy is about. What are our ends? What are the ways available, and what are the means to finance that? We need to do this in collaboration in particular with our European partners.