00:00Look, I think the president, as did President Obama, which I just said to someone else,
00:09is looking for a shift of the burden within NATO. That's appropriate. That is happening.
00:15That's gaining momentum. That's part of the point I made to President Trump when we spoke a few days
00:21ago, is that it's not just he's winning the argument, he's won the argument. Countries
00:27recognize that they need to take more responsibility, see the direct threats. Now, the question for NATO
00:34and the part of what we will discuss and part of the point I will make in the room with
00:39my three
00:40and a half minutes of time, which is about a quarter of the length of my normal answer, I know,
00:45so I
00:45apologize, is that those shifting burdens are going to be, in our view, most effectively done. Obviously,
01:00with greater capacity, we have to spend more, we have to build these capacities, that's what we're
01:03doing, but in ways that recognize the regions in which we operate. So for Canada, North America,
01:11obviously, up until now, NATO has said, well, North American security, that's your problem. Well,
01:18North American security, and particularly Arctic security, and remind everybody that, you know,
01:23we've got 15% of the world's coastline, Arctic security is not a flank, it's a front, with the
01:30shift in, with the shift in the threats and Russia as a direct adversary. So spending there and
01:38coordinating, not just Canada, but Canada, the Nordics, Canada, Germany, Canada, France, Canada,
01:44the Baltics, that crescent is vital for NATO. So that, that's where the discussion in our judgment needs to go,
01:53and that is where the planning is going, in our view.
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