What we needed within the document is the acknowledgement that we are not just talking about numbers. In Canada, we have fixated on the 3% when, in fact, if you really look at what our allies are asking us to do, it's to be prepared to fight a war. The 3% is the political answer to make sure governments are doing something, but if we look at all of our European allies, their defence policies are really about how we are going to engage in the fight.
To what you asked about what we specifically needed in it, we needed some discussion of the fact that we will, in all probability, be facing a real shooting war that may or may not involve nuclear weapons. Do we have the ability to mobilize? Do we have any indication we have learned lessons from our hard experience with COVID about how we mobilize the entire population? Do we have the ability to provide more people when people are killed on the front? Do we have the capability to provide the necessary munitions? What happens if part of North America actually suffers some form of hit, either from conventional or from nuclear forces?
None of this is brought forward, because we hate thinking about it, but the probability is that if we don't start thinking about it now, our enemies will think we're not thinking about it, and we will not be prepared.