The Permanent Joint Board of Defence provides the institution and the framework in order to advance these opportunities for collaboration. Our Department of Defense will always be in support of FEMA or the Department of Homeland Security for disaster response. Our Department of Defense will always be in support of the Department of State in international engagements. The Permanent Joint Board of Defence now incorporates Public Safety Canada, DHS, DFAIT, and the Department of State in the dialogue so that the departments that are in the lead for these issues can help shape the kinds of defence collaboration that go forward.
The future of our defence collaboration is not only military NORAD-type issues but defence support to civil authorities, where DND and DOD will always play a subordinate role and should always play a subordinate role in critical infrastructure protection, in disaster response, in all of these issues that we've been discussing today.