Mr. Chair, it's a very interesting discussion. NATO is moving towards the smart defence that Canada is very interested in—simply because of the name, if nothing else. But it is difficult in our situation to determine how we can work smart defence into our capabilities when everybody lives so far from us, except our number one ally to the south. I think that speaks to the reason that successive governments in the last 50, 60, 70 years have sought to maintain Canadian capability in just about every area that there can be capability, because there's an awareness that Canada needs to maintain some capability to defend itself across the entire spectrum.
But the smart defence that we speak about here could be used by our number one NATO ally, and that's the United States. There might be some room for discussion in coming months and years. And our American friends aren't yet aware that we're positing this, but there might be some use for the smart defence concept with American allies in future years.