Thank you very much. I'll go first, I guess.
It's almost to the point of being a no-brainer. When we look at missile proliferation, when we look at the technologies that are now being developed.... Adam made reference to the most recent Russian cruise missile. What the Russians and Chinese are also developing is a hyperkinetic cruise missile capability that is probably going to be about six or seven times the speed of sound. This is the new technological reality that we are talking about. The submarine factors are already coming into the context. To pretend that these type of technologies are not being developed with countries that have very different interests from Canada is just simply sticking our head in the snow, to be honest. Therefore, any type of participation, first and foremost with the Americans, is a complete essential to Canadian security.
In terms of working with our allies, it's not just going to be the Swedish and the Finns, it's also going to be the Norwegians. The Norwegians will be retrofitting their advanced ice-capable frigates to have an ABM capability. They're not saying this officially, but it's being discussed in all the open literature. They're going to a maritime-based ABM capability that they will then integrate with the Americans. This is what the future is becoming. I think that the essence of what we need to do is to provide security to Canadians against this type of threat.