Thank you very much, Mr. Chair; and thank you, Mr. Burt, for appearing today.
I was looking over some of the subagencies that you're responsible for. Under intelligence collection, you have the joint meteorological centre and the Canadian Forces joint imagery centre; and under intelligence assessment and enabling, you have the directorate of meteorology and oceanography. I would say you have some very powerful tools at your disposal to analyze the impacts of climate change. Canada being a northern country, we are starting to see the effects of climate change far more rapidly than countries around the equator. I know forest fires are going to be an issue in the future, as well as rising sea levels, and of course, an ice-free Arctic Ocean is a very real possibility by the end of this century.
I wonder whether you could provide the committee with an overview of the future of Canada. This study is specifically looking at Canada and the defence of North America, and if we're going to start seeing the effects of climate change hit us a lot more rapidly as we go into the future decades. Could you just provide the committee with an overview of some of the threats in that context?