Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, folks, for being here.
Mr. Hill, thank you as well for being here on the phone.
It's clear that a lot of us are interested in the Canadian companies and the way they bid, and their success in bidding on NATO contracts. I represent Dartmouth—Cole Harbour in Nova Scotia, which is of course home to Ultra Electronics, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and IMP. Of course, we have Halifax shipbuilding across the harbour, and we cut the steel in Dartmouth.
Janet, you touched on the barriers—proximity, the 8 a.m. phone calls, and so on—in your opening comments, and then you expanded a little bit with Mr. Robillard on some of those barriers for Canadian industry. With regard to bidding and winning, I won't necessarily get you to repeat all the barriers you spoke about, but in comparison with other NATO countries that are applying for these contracts, with regard to fairness and level of input within NATO, we rank pretty high; we punch above our weight class, and we know that. How are we in comparison with the other countries? Taking into context the barriers that you spoke about, how do we rate with regard to our success? I'll ask Daniel after that for a GE perspective.