I'd like to welcome everybody to the defence committee's continuing discussion on the Royal Canadian Navy and naval readiness.
Today we have David Perry, James Boutilier, Michael Byers, and Joel Sokolsky. Thank you very much for coming.
I apologize for being late. We had votes in the House.
I believe each of you has about 10 minutes. Since we're starting a little bit late, I'm going to be a little ruthless with the time. I apologize, but if you see me gesturing, you have about 30 seconds left. At the end of that 30 seconds, I will kindly ask you to step aside so that we can get our next presenter in.
Joel, I think we'll go with you first. This is a brand new room, and I think the technology is sound, but just in case we lose you at some point, I'd like to give you the opportunity to go first.
That being said, sir, you have the floor....
We don't have audio. Just give us a second.
In fact, to save some time while they work out the audio, maybe I'll jump to the next presenter. We'll circle back to the video. Hopefully by then it will be resolved.
Michael Byers, welcome, sir. You have the floor.