I think the lesson for Canada is that the ability to project our military power abroad has always been very important to Canada politically, and to a certain extent, economically. I could go right back to how we won our independence as a nation in the First World War. I could keep going, but I'm sure you're all very familiar with it.
The question is how much can we contribute, and what do we get out of it? As to how much we can contribute, I think it's the military's job to try to make sure we have forces that can be deployed, whether army, navy, or air force—not huge forces—that are in keeping with our role in the world as a major trading nation with a high standard of living and so on. I think the political level has to decide the other part of the question: where do you deploy, and where are Canada's national interests?
Those kinds of rules, if you will, have not really been laid down very clearly. As I said, it's very difficult to make defence policy in Canada, but I don't think we've had a lot of defence policy-making in this country for a long time. And I would cover two governments with that.