Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Admiral Newton and Admiral McDonald, thank you very much for being here, for your service to our nation, and for your testimony. Through you, also, my thanks to the 14,000 women and men who serve proudly in the uniform of the Royal Canadian Navy each and every day.
I want to pick up on the concept you described of the new oceanic era, and ask a question about which this committee so far, in its study, has not heard a whole lot, if anything. That's the work on economic sanctions, enforcing economic sanctions against a UN member state, most likely in a coalition context, whether it's economic sanctions, military embargoes, or quarantines. What's that work all about? What do the women and men who serve do on a mission that is engaged in enforcing economic sanctions? What kind of equipment and what kinds of vessels do they use? Also, how do you see the environment changing or having changed, let's say, over the last decade with respect to this kind of work perhaps being more prominent now, and in the future maybe becoming even more prominent?
I'd like to hear from both of you, if that's possible.