I would like to welcome everybody to the defence committee today to talk about Canada and its relationship with NATO.
I'd like to welcome our witnesses. In person, we have Robert Baines, president and chief executive officer of the NATO Association of Canada. We have Alexander Moens, chair of the political science department at Simon Fraser University, via VTC, with some people in the background. Someone who hasn't been fed in via VTC yet, but we may see as we progress, is Robert Huebert. When he shows up, I'll bring him into the conversation, but right now he is lost in cyberspace.
Having said all that, welcome to everybody.
I'm going to give the floor to Mr. Baines for his opening remarks.