I wanted to draw your attention to three points, the first three you see on your screen, and then if time permits we can touch on comparable countries.
I don't know what the committee expected, but the first point is that currently we're spending about 1% of GDP on national defence. As you can see, about 10 years ago, the chief of the defence staff, General Hillier, was saying that the 1990s were the dark ages of defence because we cut everything—the wrong argument, definitely the wrong argument. Because it was post-Cold War, we were expecting not only a peaceful world, perhaps wrongly, but also we were cutting everything in the 1990s. Once you cut every department, you cannot leave National Defence intact. It's just a fiscal argument.
Second, along the same lines, about a week ago—