Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and through you to the witnesses.
My question has more to do with icebreakers. For the purposes of what the Canadian military does right now, do you feel there's a need to have icebreakers on hand? If so, could you describe what their role would be and, since we don't have them, how urgently are they needed, if at all? With the reports that the ice cap and the Canadian Northwest Passage are opening, has there been discussion about the eventual need for icebreakers becoming obsolete? I ask that question because I understand, for example, that Finland procured four new icebreakers, but by the time they received them, there wasn't a need for four of them anymore and they currently lease them out.