Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to welcome you both to the committee and thank you for being here. I have spent a lot of time on the Arctic, and it is a concern. As Canadians we all love the Arctic and it's an area that is undergoing some new opportunities and challenges tied to the situation up there. I had the opportunity to be on the Amundsen in Hudson Bay a few years ago and appreciate the great work that it's doing up there in mapping and environmental research, as well as having that presence pulling into Churchill and allowing people there to see the Coast Guard in their backyard.
Now we have touched on the replacement of the Louis S. St-Laurent. Can you talk about the new heavy icebreaker that's coming online to replace it and what capabilities it has versus what we currently have, and how that works into the protection of our international waterways and protection of our sovereignty? Also, could you elaborate on how this new icebreaker compares to those of other Arctic nations?