Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for appearing. I want to thank Colonel Malcolm and Major Martin, our military members who are with us.
Major Martin, I particularly thank you for your testimony at the Ontario long-term care commission. I think it was brutally honest. It really gave everyone a clear picture of the unfortunate events that unfolded and that you and your team were sent in to clean up.
To start, I have a couple of quick questions for you, Colonel Malcolm. If we were in an operation like Afghanistan and had so many of our medical personnel deployed in managing role 3 hospitals in forward-operating bases, would we have been able to handle the domestic response that was required during the first wave of COVID-19?