A very strong bilateral relationship exists between Canada and the United States, between two navies with a long history of service and fighting together, with the background of NORAD and the permanent joint border defence behind them as the substance of the relationship.
My fleet and the fleet on the west coast have joined forces with the U.S. fleet forces, so I'm going to speak about my coast. The U.S. Fleet Forces Command is the American naval entity on the east coast. The United States Coast Guard, LANTAREA, which is their Atlantic-facing coast guard command, cooperates, collaborates, and plans our way through our annual activities with Joint Task Force Atlantic and with the Royal Canadian Navy.
Annually, we share the leadership of an exercise called Frontier Sentinel. It is a component of Determined Dragon and Vigilant Shield, which are a defence of North America. Using this bilateral relationship, we mimic the sort of cooperation you understand from your learning about NORAD. We do that on the maritime domain.
Last year's scenario was a terrorist or an individual with terrorist inclinations using a ship to import material to Canada and the United States. The year before it was a chemical precursor agent being imported through shipping containers. We use this platform of Frontier Sentinel and the collaboration of the three entities to ensure that our shipping plots are locked, and we're exercising to the maximum effect in the maritime domain.