We'll call the meeting to order.
Today we start our study on procurement with the Department of National Defence. We'd like to welcome today Minister O'Connor—thank you, sir, for being here—along with CDS General Hillier and Deputy Minister Elcock.
Thank you all.
Before we get started, I'd like to remind the committee that after the opening comments by the minister, we work on a pretty tight timeline, and today I'm going to be very strict. The opening round is for ten minutes; then we go to a five-minute round after that.
In order to be fair to everybody, I will be cutting off questioners. Mr. Minister, I apologize ahead of time: I may be cutting you off as well. But we're going to keep to the ten-minute timeline for each questioner, and then the five-minute timeline in the second round.
As usual, we will start, sir, with a presentation—whatever you would like to offer—and then we will get into the questioning.
The floor is yours, sir.