Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Before I go into my questions, I just do want to correct the record. The Liberals subscribe to Joseph Goebbels' mantra that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It was stated that the Canadian government is following Canadians on their IP addresses. We have heard testimony from the commissioner of CSEC that warrants are required and no wrongdoing has been committed by that agency.
That being said, I have some questions for Dr. Braun. We heard repeatedly from the United States during our NATO PA meetings that with respect to BMD, there was an interest in cooperating with the Russians. Despite the fact that they have missiles directed toward their neighbours in eastern Europe, the BMD intention was to have sensors and only react from a defensive mode, unlike them, where they have their offensive mode.
Given what's happened over the course of the past several weeks in Crimea, do you think there's going to be a realignment?