Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I wanted to take you up on your invitation to Commodore Lerhe to comment a little bit on the Canadian public. I wanted to ask about public understanding of the navy, its complexities, the capability gaps we heard about, which I'm assuming are relatively small, as well as the importance of elevating Canadian understanding and supporting a decision to do more. I'll leave it as general as that.
Please give us your comments. Commander Hansen, we would like to hear from you as well. In the last session, we had witnesses from the Navy League and the Naval Association, each of which has a public outreach mandate, but I don't think we were able to explore that question in as much depth as we would have liked. So if you give us your views, that would be greatly appreciated.