Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Rear-Admiral Finn and Ms. Campbell. It's always a pleasure to hear from you.
I want to talk a little about the time frame required for capital expenditures.
The time it would take to go from statement of requirement to RFP to selection to acquisition to being combat ready could, obviously depending on the object we're looking to buy, be quite a long time.
Given the importance of being able to protect our Arctic sovereignty, and given the—I don't want to say mistakes—lessons of the past with respect to our Victoria-class submarines, are there any thoughts already in play for replacing those submarines with nuclear? If so, are you able to share how long that would take?
Obviously, they are going to need to be replaced. I'm not sure whether they'll be replaced with nuclear submarines, but given that requirement, how long in advance would we need to start preparing in order to make sure that we don't have a capability gap in that regard?