Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for this opportunity.
Just building on the comments, again, as we go towards Chicago, smart defence really fits within a larger look for delivering on what we agreed to in Lisbon, and for how we would achieve NATO's level of ambition, looking out to the year 2020 and beyond, in regard to the types of capabilities the alliance would need to have collectively to address its level of ambition. Within that, I think you will see emerging...and smart defence is really a part of it. It's about a framework. It's about a framework where nations can, either nationally or multinationally, contribute to that collective capability package.
I think part of smart defence is about encouraging some nations to perhaps pool certain capabilities. I think there are some obvious ones there. You have the Baltics, where it might make sense for them to collectively deliver some of the capabilities that NATO looks for.
But within that broader framework of delivering a capability to NATO, either multinationally or nationally, I think Canada is very well placed with those national capabilities in how it contributes. I'm happy to go into more details, of course.