Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to resist the temptation to ask these witnesses about the Conservatives wanting to skip any procurement process on jets and the Liberals' inability to start any procurement process on jets. I'll come back to something I think is more related to the expertise of the witnesses we have in front of us.
I want to ask about intellectual property under NATO procurement rules. I've asked similar questions to you before on our own procurement.
As military technology and military equipment becomes more and more complex, especially in terms of electronics, I've become more and more concerned about companies attempting to retain the ownership of the intellectual property and the restrictions that places on the ability of militaries to do their own maintenance and repair and the restrictions that not owning the intellectual property places on future procurement.
In terms of the NATO operations, how much attention is being paid to ownership of intellectual property in those procurement processes?