Thank you, Chair.
Professor Lagassé, you've introduced, very helpfully, this concept of smart defence, which is under discussion encouraged by NATO. If I understand it correctly, NATO defines it as allies cooperating in developing and acquiring and maintaining military capabilities to meet current security problems in accordance with the new strategic concept, which we are going to look at later.
Our report at the moment is on readiness, but smart defence is potentially an important dimension of readiness, in that it encourages that collaboration that we have long sought with allies.
Given that ten countries are now pursuing the F-35 as a platform and that the U.S. intends to make it the backbone of its combat capability, does the F-35 count as smart defence?