Mr. Chair, I was fortunate to go to the region—I got back late last week with my boss—and participate in what's known as the Shangri-La Dialogue Sherpa Meeting, which is a regional security forum. It's named after the hotel; it's nothing exciting.
All of that is to say that we had multiple bilaterals with partners throughout the region who said, yup, you're present, and you've been doing good things. However, it's a year in, so I don't want to be too self-celebratory up here and say that we've resolved this. We're now a year in, and from a defence perspective, we're starting to build on relationships. I talked about the visit with the Philippines and Vietnam, and I went to Cambodia, as a means of starting relationships with the countries that are important particularly for ASEAN.
I think we're building upon these relationships and also looking for opportunities across the five pillars of defence. Yes, we want to have ships and visit as much as possible. Where can we do exercises? How about capacity building, including women, peace and security, and maybe some cyber? We're looking for those opportunities. I would say we're doing well after the first year, but we'll continue to build on those.