I would qualify climate change as an accelerator to the various threats we are facing. I think Mr. Anderson was talking a bit earlier about hybrid threats. What we could use as an example is climate creating an acceleration of various threats coming together, especially when we're speaking about the Arctic.
As the Arctic becomes more accessible due to climate change, the more humans you have around and the more diverse the threat is going to be; the military is one of them. We need to think about criminal dual-use research being conducted, search and rescue, and so on. I think we could also say that the Coast Guard's joining us in Defence is actually a way of joining our strengths together to face those converging and hybrid threats in a better fashion, as we have different capabilities and we can join our forces to address that.
Climate change is also affecting our rate of involvement in domestic operations in Canada. They have doubled from what we have seen over the years. It's creating a huge demand on your Canadian Armed Forces to be responding. As we speak, we are still involved in Nova Scotia in supporting their efforts in fighting the forest fires there at this time of year, which is unheard of.