Mr. Chair, thank you very much.
Good morning, Minister. It's great to be with you and your senior staff.
The committee is currently doing a study on UN peacekeeping. I wanted to take advantage of your presence this morning to ask you about the main estimates. There's an appropriation of I think $8.9 billion in funding for ready forces personnel. I'm wondering if you could elaborate, in a bit of detail, on how that relates to Canada's commitment to UN peacekeeping, and convey to the committee your vision for the way forward in peacekeeping and peace operations.