Thank you so much for being here and for representing so many great businesses in Canada.
We've obviously been hearing a lot about the opportunities for the civilian sector to work with the military. In this connection, nothing is more apparent to me than tackling climate change. We saw how Defence was called upon to help in response to last year's raging forest fires, flooding and other types of natural disasters. In fact, in my home province of B.C., over 350 military personnel were sent to the interior to fight forest fires and to support private sector contractors.
Do you believe that it's really important that the military work with the private sector, outside of typical defence needs that you would imagine, on the climate emergencies?
I have a great company that you're probably very well informed about, Coulson Aviation. They're working in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and the United States of America. They're working with their C-130s and CH-47s and Black Hawks to support aerial firefighting capacities, but they're not doing anything here in Canada, and Canada hasn't taken a lead in forest firefighting.
Do you see opportunities that could be there to help deal with natural disasters and the warming climate that we're facing?