Thank you, Minister.
Thanks for working on the 1994 white paper. I had to implement that one. It's good that we've come full circle here.
I'll be very brief. It is increasingly difficult, because of the transnational and transregional threats we face, to separate NATO and European northern defence and NORAD and Arctic defence. I'm not saying for a minute that we're going to be militarizing the Arctic with NATO forces, but it is inconceivable to imagine a large conventional conflagration in mainland or northern Europe without there being a threat to Canadian airspace through NORAD.
All of that planning for NORAD modernization and where we will take North American defence and how that sits with our other alliance obligations to NATO is part of what this policy asks us to do.