Thanks very much, Chair.
Thanks very much to the witnesses for your time and for bringing your expertise to the committee today.
In the framing of the study that you're now contributing to, the committee acknowledged that we don't know what we don't know. I'd like to use the next five or six minutes, whatever the chair is giving us right now, to ask you both to educate the committee on the importance of Arctic defence in the context of space.
Could I ask you both to keep in mind as you answer your questions what the role of industry is in this? Could you frame in your responses, somewhere along the way, a recommendation that the committee could include in its report?
Perhaps we can go in the order that we heard from the speakers and start with Dr. Hughes. I'll try to keep the time split in half, with three minutes each.