Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Minister, for your appearance and that of your officials.
Like you and I think the vast majority of Canadians, we were pleased to see the actions and activities of the Canadian armed forces in southern Alberta during the flood, the participation internationally with Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and, of course, support of the NATO reassurance mission—our contribution to that. I believe we also had some heavy-lift assistance in the mission in Mali in the last year or so, as well. These are good reasons why Canadians need to have, and want to have, a military force capable of providing these types of both national and international assistance.
Sir, on the estimates as a whole, in previous years there used to be a breakdown of the main estimates in terms of army, navy, and air force. We don't see that today. I don't want to have an answer right now, but could we get your officials to provide the committee with a breakdown of the operational expenditures and the capital expenditure by category for army, navy, air force, reserves, and cadets?
It would be very helpful for us to understand what's going on in the allocation of resources inside the military. Is that something that you would be prepared to provide?