Yes, we are, in fact.
It's a really great question, and I think we've all been around long enough to say there's been a tremendous evolution in this relationship. What your question gets to is that there actually is a culture of integrated cooperation, and then there are the formal mechanisms through which we play that out.
There really is a culture, and I'm not just saying this for the committee's sake. If we look at the headlines in the morning and say, “Good gracious! Tuvalu, or wherever, is going up in flames”, the first thing we do is say, “Okay, where is Foreign Affairs on this? What are we seeing from our embassies abroad?”
Our embassies abroad, under the head of mission, act as a whole-of-government integrated team. I talked about our defence attachés. They report to the head of mission. They're part of this integrated approach to how Canada is looking at this. As we consider what the response mechanisms are, it's immediately to Foreign Affairs. What's the government's approach to this? What do we think makes sense? What are our allies doing? What assets does DND perhaps have out in that part of the world that we could call on?
The integration and culture of cooperation goes from the fact that we're on each other's e-mails, so we're in continual contact. We all copy each other. The lines between the departments for that strategic level of analysis and cooperation are totally erased, I can say.