On the security context, one of the things we started with was to understand the threat that's out there, speaking with our closest allies on this, making sure that we have Canadian Armed Forces that are well supported and well resourced for full-on conventional war fight, but at the same time being resourced so that they will be able to adapt to the various threats that are out there—hence, our support with Operation IMPACT currently, our leadership role in NATO, and our eventual peace support operations trying to reduce conflict. We're basically making sure that the Canadian Armed Forces has the full range, the full spectrum, the full-on conventional operations capability to do peace support operations and why we, as the government, are resourcing the Canadian Armed Forces so that the military leadership can make the right plans and give the right advice to government on that.
On June 20th, 2017. See this statement in context.