That's kind of you. Thank you.
I won't complete my remarks. I will, though, go straight to the recommendations.
Here's what I would have you recommend.
First, Canada should devote intellectual and diplomatic talent to the conception and promotion, bilaterally and multilaterally, of a coherent, realistic vision of Eurasian security.
Second, we should recognize, comprehend, and restore rational relations with Russia such as by a committee like yours, or your sister committee on foreign policy, visiting Russia and hearing from Russians.
Third, we should reconsider our advocacy of further NATO expansion.
Fourth, we should promote essential Ukrainian-Russian reconciliation.
Fifth, we should meantime sustain our necessarily modest contribution to NATO in Europe and enhance our armed forces at home. That's a tall order, but along with three oceans to sail, we have promises to keep.
Those are my recommendations.