Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the minister and the officials for coming in and spending time with us today, especially since we had to reschedule this.
It is important that we have this discussion on CSEC and also on the supplementary estimates (C), even though the supplementary estimates (C) have already been passed. There is a lot of good stuff that was in those supplementary estimates (C). This is in addition to what we've already done in providing new equipment on the Canadian Armed Forces, with new heavy-lift tactical equipment, with C-17s, new Hercules, and new Chinook helicopters for troop movement. We now have the new Leopard tank series. We're enhancing that battle group with these new armoured engineering vehicles.
Can we talk a little bit about what exactly those vehicles do and how they function within the context of the battle group? Are these newly acquired assets or are we doing some modifications to the existing fleet?