Thank you.
Simply a word on your afterword about being out in the world. The other thing I should have said is that the best way you secure yourself is forward defence. So what you want to do is to be able to meet threats as far away from your national shores as possible. So again, that ability to deploy, whether it's CCVs or others, is all part of the same package in a way.
On NATO being an artifact of a passing world, there should be a lively debate about the future of the alliance and whether it's still relevant. We have gone through that. We went through that when we had the discussion around the strategic concept. We went through that discussion at the end of the cold war, and we have to make sure that we're not all investing in something that's actually not necessary. But interestingly, things like Libya, things like counter-piracy, things like counterterrorism, all the stuff that we're doing, NATO support to the African union, the training that we're doing in Afghanistan now, all show that there is an enduring value in this alliance as a Euro-Atlantic community of interest, which is helping to bring security to other parts of the world.
In terms of shifting perspectives, you know, the U.S.—there's a lot of talk about the U.S. pivot, and they can talk to that themselves, I don't have to—has always been a pacific nation. Canada has always been a pacific nation. Do you have a little bit of emphasis? Yes, perhaps, a new emphasis.
Thanks, Chair.