Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the kind introduction.
I can answer, and maybe the chief will want to jump in afterwards.
As part of the process for the consultations for the development of this policy, of course, as you can well imagine, we did consult allies extensively, among other stakeholders. Allies really imparted to us the importance of Canada's continuing to play a really important role in the Euro-Atlantic space, as we're doing, for example, in Latvia but also in our own space in the Arctic and on the continent. They are making a link between Canada and North America as a continent being NATO's western flank and also NATO's northern flank, and a link between our defence of that space and the defence of the Euro-Atlantic space and NATO's overall deterrence and defence agenda.
That really helped inform the focus in the policy on the Arctic and on defending the continent. The consultations also helped inform the proposed investments—the commitment to pursue a number of investments and to explore others—that will ensure that the CAF will have the capability it needs to be able to play the role that it's expected to play in the allied context, including in the Euro-Atlantic space.