Okay. Thank you.
I have a question now for the representatives from our armed forces.
This month, Estonia accused a PRC ship of damaging an underwater gas pipeline and two data cables. Most of the world's Internet and data traffic travel over submarine cables. There is a major cable from Port Alberni to Japan that carries a lot of data traffic.
I'm wondering whether or not, in your professional opinion, we have the submarine capacity to monitor threats to our submarine cables. As you know, we have four diesel battery-powered submarines that are nearing the end of their lives. To my knowledge, we have no autonomous submarine capacity in the Royal Canadian Navy, and yet we face these threats. I would like your analysis about whether or not we are equipped to monitor threats to our submarine infrastructure on our coasts.