Thank you.
Thank you, General, for being here. I appreciate your words about the myth of peacekeeping. We tend to define ourselves that way when the reality is that Canada is strong in its reputation internationally because of our presence in the trenches of World War I and on the beaches of World War II, because we knew how to step up well beyond our nominal capacities.
Looking forward, the phrase “the best small army in the world”, of course, resonates. We're going to have to make choices automatically about where we can go or what type of intervention we should be in, and the optimal, flexible, lethal, capable force of responding to some of the different challenges is essential.
On top of these three amphibious stations or forces that you see, what will we have to remove from what we do right now in order to create those? Because there's always give and take. If we were to focus on that, what would that mean we couldn't do and what would we have to remove from our arsenal, as it were, of capacities?