I was highly pleased to see that you were on the witness list today, especially given your subject, security in the electric grid system, and given that here in Ontario there's public upheaval over mismanagement of our electrical generation and distribution systems at the time.
When the military and heads of state were drafting the NATO strategic concept, the principle of energy security had been proposed by some of the eastern European nations that were dependent and had suffered the valve turn-off by Russia. The alliance decided not to adopt power security as part of its new strategic concept. My question is this: should the principle of energy security be included as central components of our national defence policies, either separately or collectively in North America?