I have two quick questions, and I'll lead off with the first.
My background is in a uniform, but it was in policing in Ontario. One of the issues that followed me throughout my 30-year career, quite frankly, was one of morale. I've often said that more than pay and benefits, morale is affected by the quality of the equipment one uses. I was particularly...I'll leave my feelings out of it.
People use the word “tanks”. A tank is a mobile platform to which you attach different sizes of artillery and/or arms. I'm more interested in the morale effect—the morale effect not only on the men and women who serve with our forces, but if we have any knowledge of how it's affecting our enemy, and also the morale effect on the local citizenry. Can you address that?