We missed the opportunities. If not from Canada or Australia, where are our allies and partners going to get their critical minerals and their rare earths?
They're by and large not particularly friendly regimes. We are very concerned about their general approaches to the world, their human rights records and so forth, so here's an opportunity to work together and for Canadians and parliamentarians to imagine the world we want to live in five, 10 and 20 years from now.
To that effect, we need to stop talking about defence first and foremost. We need to start talking about deterrence. Ultimately, I don't think we want to defend anything, because Canada, first and foremost, knows the cost of having to defend not just our country but our European allies. Let's invest in preventing the sort of calamity, the sort of whale, that is coming at us.