Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Jennings, it's great to have you at committee. I think Canada and Australia have had very similar types of histories. We've stood shoulder to shoulder in many conflicts going right back to the Boer War, and right now today in Iraq. We do lean on each other for best practices and for how we can get better, and we look at what you're doing. I do appreciate you coming and sharing the information you have.
I agree with you that there is a need to expand upon what we do through the Five Eyes now. What we can do through Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and the United States, I think, only enhances our national security interests and our collective security as global partners.
Like Ms. Alleslev, I want to dig more into how you were able to come together under a defence industry minister as somebody taking the lead in making sure the procurement works and getting the politics out of the way, although you're facing some of the challenges that we are with our own shipbuilding strategy and delivering projects on time and on budget. Can you talk to that political window of how they were able to all come together? Was it just bipartisan, or were Labor, National, and Liberal all able to come together, and do the Greens support it? Were you able to get everybody on side, or just the main governing bodies?