Dr. Bercuson, you wrote a report titled, “In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy in an Insecure World”. In this report you accurately predicted that the Arab situation would develop, and it did present itself as a future hot zone. You mentioned it was suffering from critical underdevelopment, along with a dangerous combination of incendiary conditions. We certainly saw this region turn into a hot zone with the emergence of the Arab Spring and the NATO-led mission in Libya.
Looking at global conditions, what are some of the other threats, both conventional and unconventional, facing Canada?