This meeting will come to order. The defence committee is continuing its study of the defence of North America, but before we begin, I'd like to just recognize the presence in the public gallery of the Honourable David Price, former chair of the defence committee.
Thank you for dropping by, sir.
We have before us today two witnesses. The first of our witnesses is Mr. Colin Robertson, vice-president of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. We also have Mr. Aurel Braun, a visiting professor from the department of government at Harvard University.
Welcome, gentlemen. As per usual, you will have a 10-minute introduction.
Before we begin, I just want to apologize to those who came here expecting a full two-hour meeting. Apparently we have some exigencies of procedural affairs in the House, and the bells may ring, so this may be, I suspect very strongly, a shortened meeting.
For that reason, we'll ask Mr. Colin Robertson to begin.
Please do your best to keep it within the 10 minutes.
Thank you.