We need, first of all, to have an ongoing discussion on how we truly defend Canada. It can't be something where we turn around, from a societal perspective, and say, “Okay, we've met our 2%; now let's get on to some domestic issue, and we don't have to come back to this context.”
We need to have a societal change in terms of awareness. We need to be aware of the potential for an actual great power conflict to the same level we were at one point in understanding environmental security threats. I think Canadians truly started to appreciate the danger coming from climate change, which is not to say that it has in any way gone away or been solved. It's to get at society.
The second part is the political elite. Political elites need to understand that we are in a different geopolitical environment. This has to be a day-to-day frontline consideration almost on everything that you are doing in that context.
We also have to realize the manner in which we have allowed most of the forces' capability to basically atrophy. We need to be saying, “We need to do this as quickly as possible”, except that means mistakes will be made.
We need to start getting out of the mindset that once we solve an issue, like getting the fighter replacement, that's only the beginning. We need to be thinking in terms of how we do replacements when we take losses. We need to be thinking in terms of how we replace pilots when there are losses. We need to change that element of how we are preparing going forward.