Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Minister, and your team, for coming today.
Mr. Chair, I'm going to be splitting my time with Mr. Harris, so I was hoping that with a minute left you could rudely, or politely, interrupt me--politely if it's one of the witnesses talking with a minute left.
Minister, you've raised the issue of the Canada First defence strategy a number of times and you've talked about what good financial health the department is in, but I'm wondering what kind of shape you consider the CFDS to be in.
It surfaced last May in Minister Fantino's briefing book that because of the 2010 budget cuts, the CFDS was unaffordable, so at this point in time it seems that if we're carrying forward with the CFDS, we're driving off a fiscal cliff, and if we back it off, we're off a policy cliff. I'm wondering which way we're going.
You made reference to a refresh. When can we expect something of that nature?