Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank our guests for their testimonies and for the very useful information they shared with us.
I will continue sort of along the same lines as my colleague Mr. Spengemann, who spoke about figures.
We know that the military needs reinvestment. I think everyone here agrees with that. Its budget is currently $18.6 billion, which is about 8% of the country's budget and 1% of our GDP. We know that NATO would like the NATO member countries to invest 2% of their GDP. Even Mr. Obama asked us for that last summer.
We know that what is desirable and what is feasible are two different things. I am used to be an economics teacher. It is often said that needs are unlimited, but that resources are limited. What might be thinkable and doable in the Canadian context?
Increases that can be decreed are thinkable. A little earlier, you spoke about a proportion of 20%. This percentage would mean that instead of a budget of $18.6 billion, it would increase to about $42 billion. I don't think Canada is capable of that.
With respect to what is doable, what projections would you give us?