Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I guess I'll start by—I don't know what to call it—“musing” a bit. This committee had set its own goal of producing a report on our maritime readiness by December so we could feed into the defence review. We've missed our own deadline on that. The defence review isn't going to be finished until after the budget, or released until after the budget. The budget is clearly in its final phases, so the defence review has missed the budget. The concern I'm musing about here is that actual events are running way ahead of our ability to influence them from this committee, from the kind of testimony that you are giving.
What is the critical thing that needs to happen, in the absence of the defence review and in the absence of our report getting in, or what's the critical thing we need to either watch for or expect the government to do in the next few months with regard to our naval readiness?
I'll start with Mr. Perry.