I would simply like to correct the record about peacekeeping. In the UN mission managed by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in which I served, on every day I was there, no bus on earth could have held all of the Canadians who worked for that one mission. So let's not exaggerate.
Canadian Forces have been engaged in non-UN missions because the UN doesn't have the capability to run a combat mission. It self-declared that it lacks that capability. There have been combat missions to which, regrettably, we have had to contribute, and for which we've had Canadian support broadly and deeply.
But my question is really about spending levels. You talked about our having surpassed spending during the Cold War. Are you aware that for decades at the end of the Cold War, and certainly in the 1990s under Liberal governments in every case, we had the second-lowest per capita spending of any NATO country, slightly higher than Luxembourg? Is that the kind of record we should be repeating now?