That's an easy question, actually. Why? It's because I'm old enough to have been studying environmental security threats and remember the time when the whole idea of climate change and the existential threat that it posed to Canadians was even considered. It wasn't in the literature and it wasn't in the political discourse. There is an appreciation of what climate change, from the period of about 1990 onward, means as a threat to Canada. In that regard, we have to understand how successive governments have been able to understand that developing threat, present it to Canadians and have Canadians respond.
We need exactly the same type of thinking about the geopolitical threat. There is a mythology that either you are trying to solve the existential threat of climate change or you are trying to solve the existential threat of geopolitical nuclear war. What we really need to do is tell Canadians it's just as serious as the threat to the environment is. The threat to our security on the basis of a failing American democracy, if we see what we are expecting to transpire with one possibility and with the rising weapon systems and threats that China and Russia offer to us, is just as serious a threat. It's not one replacing the other.
We've solved one. We've created the political thinking that we needed to respond to climate change. We need exactly the same type of political will, at exactly the same time, to deal now with the geopolitical threat.