Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for your testimony today.
Let me start by formally acknowledging the services that you two generals and the women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces are doing to ensure that Canada is kept safe and NORAD is kept strong. Thank you very much.
I'm going to limit my questions to the scope of the NORAD modernization. As I'm sure you followed the testimony, there are two schools of thought coming up. One is very defensive and the other one is defensive plus offensive. I call the defensive one, “upgrade and integrate”, and the offensive-plus-defensive one, “upgrade, enhance and integrate”.
Lieutenant-General, in your opening remarks you indicated that you are actively communicating—it's your requirement—with the leadership of both the U.S. and Canada. Can I start with you, sir, to ask whether the requirement that you're forwarding on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces has an offensive nature as well as a defensive nature?