Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, in defence of Canadian Forces' maintainers—and I know no slight was intended towards them—there is no group of more inventive, more innovative people anywhere in any industry. The Canadian Forces' maintainers are magicians. They have managed to keep equipment that should never be running, running. They're a tremendous group of individuals, and I would suggest that their standards far exceed most other groups in Canada. So here's one for the maintainers.
Sir, you talked about risk assessment, in terms of the project management process overall, and you mentioned time, technology, and cost. But could you compare that to operational necessity? When you're making some of those decisions, there are times when there's nothing going on and there's not a tremendous amount of pressure to, say, procure or get equipment, but then there are times when, of course, we are in high operational tempo, such as Afghanistan, and then there is the added pressure of operational necessity. Can you make a comment on that, sir?