Thank you very much.
I want, if I may, to come back to a topic I didn't have a chance to speak with you about in my last series of questions, which is the different sizes of equipment and clothing that are not normally carried in stock at bases.
I know, Lieutenant-General, you spoke to that issue, but we got cut off. What I want to get back to is the fact that in many cases, at least currently, when different equipment is required, payment for that comes out of a base budget or local budget. Forgive me—I don't know all the structures, but what I understand is that it comes out of a base budget.
That cost poses a challenge to the integration, because decisions have to be made to spend that money at the local level, and that's what I've heard from people who've served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
I guess my question to you is whether you support this and what actions you would take to make sure doing this is no longer an impediment. In other words, would there be a separate budget set aside to ensure that this equipment could be procured without interfering with the local operating budgets of the base?