I don't think it's sufficient to mollify the concerns that President Trump has with regard to this country, and I think it would simply attract his attention. I'm afraid that for DND.... Particularly in the time that I was in NORAD, there was very much a sense that if we do certain things, if we spend certain money on NORAD modernization, we can mollify the Americans with regard to our defence spending overall.
I think the addition of things like the pay increase for the Canadian Forces and gathering the Coast Guard into DND were basically accounting tricks, so that we can move forward and say that we are spending more of our GDP. I am less interested in how much of our GDP we spend on defence than on the actual military capabilities that come out at the other end, which are what we need to be able to defend ourselves.