I'm a realist, and not in the Clausewitzian sense of the word. Obviously, I realize that there are strong states out there, and strong states are going to behave in any way they see fit. I think we're on the receiving end of a bit of that right now, where India is flexing its new-found muscle on the global stage. This is inevitably one of the things that you're going to see.
That being said, I think the highest order or highest concern of government is to keep citizens safe. If we're talking about a series of counterbalancing trade-offs, it's awfully hard to trade citizens' lives for the purposes of a trade deal.
I realize that the world's a complicated place, but I would just say that if we're going to be doing a strategy and if we're going to be looking at what the first objective is in the first sentence of that strategy, the highest responsibility of government is to keep Canadian citizens safe, period.