Thank you.
This is fascinating. Thank you for your presentation to the committee.
I am trying to understand why Canada is so far behind in its own JUSTAS program, the joint unmanned surveillance and target acquisition system. It was announced in the 2005 election campaign by the Conservative Party that, if elected, it would be using these UAVs in Goose Bay, Comox, and so on for Arctic air surveillance. As we know, that has been a failed procurement, and there has not been anything delivered past the options analysis stage. You're providing a lot of information about how this can be used in surveillance as well as.... We also know that it could be used in a place like Iraq, where we don't have ground information and where these kinds of unmanned vehicles can carry precision optics and radar, intercept cellphone networks, and find out what people on the ground are saying to whom, where their weapons dumps are, and what their plans are. Do you think that the Canadian government should accelerate its...? Well, they can't go more slowly, but do you think this is an important program for the country, both for the overseas military operations and for the Arctic surveillance and defence, or do you think it should be focused more on the local Canadian needs?