Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through you, thank you for being here today, Mr. Perry.
We've just heard, of course, from the Lithuanian minister, and keeping some of the elements in mind with BALTBAT and the fact that they interoperate with other Baltic states—Poland and so forth, and Ukraine on some levels—smart defence means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It will probably mean some different things to some of the smaller nations. We talked about the air force capabilities. She just described the fact that a lot of their air surveillance is helped by the other Baltic states—Poland, and the United States and others providing those ranges of capability.
Are you able, sir, to touch on how smart defence for Canada could mean a drastically different thing than it would for a smaller partner nation like Lithuania? As well, how can members of the alliance work together to ensure that while each nation may have different capabilities, the mandate of NATO, as found in article 5, will always remain its top priority?
Can you comment, sir?