I believe our relationship with NATO remains extremely strong. We're the sixth largest contributor to NATO. The deputy commander of Joint Task Force Naples is Lieutenant-General Marquis Hainse, who replaced Lieutenant-General Charlie Bouchard, who, of course, led the combat mission over Libya. We have Vice-Admiral Bob Davidson at headquarters in Brussels, and quite a selection of talented officers and non-commissioned officers over in Brussels helping with that as well.
That will continue to be the way ahead for us with like-minded nations over there. As we have spoken a little bit earlier, we've worked to be interoperable with all of the equipment they use as well.
There are all kinds of tremendous projects under way with NATO to transform—in much the same way we're working on it—their operations toward smart defence. There's a reliance and an interdependence between members, which will allow certain members to decrease capabilities in a certain area. It's called smart defence. They're also working very hard on decreasing the overhead, much as the Canadian armed forces are doing.
NATO provides us an opportunity, as the third mission given to us in the Canada First defence strategy, to project Canadian leadership as we've been so successful in doing through NATO in Afghanistan, with many deputy commanders and commanders in combat over there.