Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. As always, thank you for your service to our country.
Major-General Smith, you were talking about pillars. The pillar that I was interested in was the “active and engaged partner” pillar. How did our engagement and our activity within this region change once we released our strategy in November 2022? You used the phrase “broaden and deepen”. I think you said we moved from two warships to three warships.
Perhaps you could just fill us in a little bit on that pillar and how Canada is an active and engaged partner.