Thank you.
Thanks for being here today.
In looking at your very impressive background in the Canadian Armed Forces, and seeing that you joined National Defence in 2008, I'm going to speculate that it must have been very difficult times, because over the last four or six years there has been such a gap between the myths that have been propagated about stable and increasing funding for this department for 20 years, and the reality of the budget cuts and the clawbacks. You have been in the middle of having to deal with some of that.
I hear from men and women in uniform about the morale problems in various areas of defence because of the budget cuts and also about the lack of provision of replacement equipment, which means that people can't train on the equipment. I want to ask about morale and what your past experience has suggested or has led you to have as a framework for improving morale when there is a systemic problem in a department.