I'd like to welcome everybody to the defence committee this afternoon. More importantly, I'd like to welcome our witnesses.
We have Stéfanie von Hlatky, associate professor and director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University. Thank you for coming.
We also have Yves Brodeur, fellow at Canadian Global Affairs, via VTC from Quebec; and Julian Lindley-French, fellow at Canadian Global Affairs, via VTC from the Netherlands. Thank you very much for appearing.
Just a reminder, please restrict your comments to 10 minutes. If you see me holding up a white paper at any time, that means I'm looking for you to sum up in 30 seconds so I can keep us on time.
I'm going to turn the floor over to Ms. von Hlatky for her opening remarks.
Ms. von Hlatky, you have the floor.