I'm coming to the end of my remarks.
What this means as we look to the future is that there is going to be a growing variety of different actors and institutions in conflict management and security operations. The challenges of effective coordination are going to grow exponentially. As more and more players take the stage, it is going to become increasingly difficult to orchestrate what will surely be an ad hoc process. It will be difficult to maintain coherence and ensure that different security actors, including our own armed forces, are not working at cross-purposes. Multi-party conflict management, or collective conflict management—CCM—is a growing reality of the present era. It requires not just robust forces but a special brand of leadership—military, diplomatic—and development skill sets that are going to pose their own unique challenges to Canada. It's also fair to say that conflict and security management arrangements will increasingly be task and situation determined, improvised with less formal mandates or rules, and developed spontaneously in response to the needs and interests of those who participate.
Thank you.