It's a very good question. I can answer that quite directly, because I had the opportunity to be at the White House with the Prime Minister and other ministers. We discussed this with the President, the vice-president, and Secretary Mattis, who I've met on a number of occasions.
One message has been clear: the U.S. support for NATO is unwavering, and that will always be there.
The other message has been that any time there has been difficult work that needs to be done, Canada has always been there. We have a wonderful relationship, and this is a testament to our troops and our leadership at this level.
I also want to stress that when I say that we have the most diverse multinational battle group, that is a massive message that we're sending. I don't know how else to explain it. We can just send a battle group ourselves, but when you're trying to coordinate with other nations, what we are demonstrating is that we're working together with nations from the east and the south, Spain. That sends an extremely solid message. We are doing a phenomenal job of being able to coordinate this. It is actually quite complex. It's going to send a positive deterrent message to Russia.