Thank you for having me, Chair.
Thank you very much for coming, Ms. Thomas. It's very interesting. Your background seems ideally suited at this time when the defence staff is engaged in such a huge amount of procurement and revitalization in transitioning to a new policy.
From your background, I see that you were heavily involved with managing a change or crisis at the immigration department. We would like to avoid a further crisis in managing the change to a new strategic approach to defence, the new national defence policy.
What additional supports do you see being needed in the department to ensure that legacy protocols can continue to be managed while new processes and policies are being put into place?