Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both of the witnesses for being here. It's excellent to have your informed expertise at this important study.
I think you were saying, actually, a lot of similar things, which is really important in crafting the recommendations we will make to government.
We all share concerns around the challenges we've seen in our armed forces, in procurement and many others, in the last decade. I know as a patriotic Canadian that hearing our allies call us freeloaders in the allied defences is very hard to hear. I think we all agree we need to change that internationally. Certainly at home, I'm very happy to see that Canadians are putting sovereignty as a top issue for them, probably for the first time since the Cold War era. This is good news on that front—that Canadians are putting that forward as a main issue.
You both mentioned the importance of sovereign capabilities. We've had some challenges in this area over the last number of years. I'll first focus on aerospace and then speak generally. In aerospace, of course, we have a large sector in Winnipeg that we're proud of and we would like to see grow.
To Mr. Mueller, what do you think it will take, from where the issues are today and the struggles we're having, to have clear sovereign capabilities on aerospace? What are the top two things you can give to this committee?