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I have one final observation. We're absolutely right to have a debate around this table and in Canada about the relevance of NATO today. There are some detractors. but I think our sense on our side is that there are a lot of supporters, proponents, people who believe in NATO in different ways for different reasons. Canadians generally believe in collective security. The missions we've been involved in, in the last decade, have at one point or another been resoundingly popular—in Afghanistan in the early days, in Libya last year. I just wanted that observation to be part of our discussion today.
Thank you, Jill Sinclair, for mentioning the U.N. Canada's security concerns beyond Afghanistan are concentrated, and there are also political concerns in a few countries in the Middle East—Iran, Syria. They're in the headlines and on our minds. We all see from a strategic concept that NATO's Mediterranean dialogue and Istanbul cooperation initiative, as well as some contact countries, are important elements of the collective security vocation of NATO. Could you tell us a bit more about what those groups do for NATO and with NATO?