I call the meeting back to order. We're continuing with our hearings.
Joining us for the second hour is David Perry, who is a doctoral candidate in political science at Carleton University, where he holds the Dr. Ronald Baker Security and Defence Forum Ph.D. scholarship.
Congratulations.
He's a defence analyst with the CDA Institute, a member of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and the Canadian International Council's strategic studies working group, and a pre-doctoral fellow with the Centre for Security and Defence Studies at Carleton. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies at Carleton, he served as the deputy director of Dalhousie University's Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. He has done a lot of research and has presented on conferences in North America and Israel and been published widely.
Mr. Perry, I'll give you the floor to bring us your opening comments.