Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, folks. I've really enjoyed the conversation.
Our study is about Canada's involvement in NATO and whether NATO is relevant. I think that it may be because of the rhetoric of Mr. Trump during and after the election about NATO and its value to the world. I think I got defensive about NATO and started thinking about what we have to offer. Many times around here we've used the term “punching above our weight class”.
Mark, I think you even used it today.
I kept seeing this study from the view of what we have to offer the world and what we have to offer through NATO, so I was really interested, Sarah, when you talked about Canada's benefit from our involvement in NATO. It kind of spun the table around for some reason. You said that you came at your testimony today at an angle that was a little different because you've already read all the testimony. I appreciate your looking for a different angle. That's given me a chance to focus on that other side.
You said that it's easier for Canada to contribute to NATO. Is that our alignment? Is that our ideology? You really never did expand on that. I have one other question, but do you want to give me a comment on what your thought process is there?