What I submitted to the committee—the Five Eyes German-French initiative, with a clear vision for 2031—is where we need to put our resources. If you read that document, I think it is the best short-form articulation I have found of the challenges and how we can work together to draw clear red lines, deter our adversaries and enable the capabilities we need in everything from fighting forest fires to ensuring continuity of communications, civilian assets and the like.
I think we have a very clear target, and given that Canada has signed on to it, the challenge is how we translate it into effective outcomes. As you know, Canada often has perfunctory announcements about defence, and then we have trouble meeting them. Here's one commitment that, if we allocate our resources and capabilities effectively, we can actually meet. It will offer us a disproportionate payoff and some reputational assets among our key Five Eyes allies, plus France and Germany. This is easier from a multilateral perspective because you have seven countries playing together as opposed to all of NATO, for instance.