Unless one believes, then, that the defence review is going to significantly alter the traditional Canadian roles of NATO, contributing to international coalitions, domestic operations, and North American security, we will simply fit the navy we have into those obligations and make the contributions.
I agree with Michael Byers that they should go ahead with the shipbuilding project. We don't know whether there's going to be a new emphasis on maritime security, as envisioned in the 2006 NORAD renewal, so there may be more obligations in North America. But we'll do what we've done: we'll fit the navy into what we've committed to and we'll make our contributions. As I argued at the beginning, we have that discretion. Given the nature of the threats, and I suspect given the mood in Washington, a little more emphasis will be put on allied obligations than UN obligations in the defence review, but importantly in the policy that the government has, and we will make whatever contribution we can while we're trying to rebuild the navy. But I don't see the defence review as fundamentally altering what the navy will be asked to do in the future.