Thank you, Minister.
With respect to reporting on the defence spending for NATO, Canada includes spending made directly to veterans, peacekeeping, humanitarian operations, the Coast Guard and transfer payments to security agencies—both international and domestic. Those are new additions to make it look like we're investing more in the military than we are.
Given that we learned that the Prime Minister has no intention of even attempting to aspire to the 2%, what's going to happen when the 2% goal becomes the floor and it's no longer just an aspirational goal? What happens when it becomes the floor at which we're supposed to be spending on defence from the beginning?