Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here.
Before I get into my questions, I want to say quite clearly that I'm a huge supporter of NATO and everything it does. Canadian participation in it is very important, especially to the Conservatives and I believe to all members of this committee. However, this one question has been raised to me in the past, and now we have the industrial representatives who participate at the NATO level here with us. We're always asked to keep participating in NATO. We are the fifth-largest contributor and we're leading the enhanced forward position in Latvia. We have boots on the ground, we're providing technical and financial assistance, and we're large participants at NATO headquarters and at SHAPE.
Yet, according to what Daniel just said, Canadian companies only get 1% of the contracts. I know you have lies, damned lies, and statistics, and I don't know what percentage dollar value that represents, but if Canada and Canadian companies are not benefiting from being part of NATO, and if the European nations definitely want Canada at the table and want Canada participating in NATO missions, shouldn't Canadian industry be getting something back out of that?