Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You're right in saying that the U.S. at the moment covers 21.7% of the NATO budget. It's a major contributor.
You might want to get somebody from the U.S. here to talk about U.S. policy, because I don't want to interpret it for them.
Their shift in emphasis from the Atlantic to the Pacific is a shift in focus and intensity. There's a message being sent to European allies. Frankly, it's a message Canada also sends to European allies. They have to step up to the plate a little bit more. That's all part of a healthy debate.
Is NATO a reduced organization? I don't know. Maybe it's a refocused organization. Maybe it will prioritize its spending in different ways. I'm not sure that it's going to be a reduced organization in terms of its political importance. It remains the singularly unique military organization in the world that can pull together an operation on behalf of the United Nations and on behalf of the EU to provide capacity-building for the African Union. It's actually unique. I'm not sure that it's going to be a reduced organization, but it has to be a transformed organization. There's no question.