The meeting is now back.
Pursuant to a motion adopted by the committee on November 2, we're resuming the study on space defence.
Joining us for this hour is Christian Leuprecht, professor at RMC, a familiar face at this committee, and Thomas Hughes, post-doctoral fellow, Frank McKenna school, Mount Allison University.
I'm going to ask each of you for an opening five-minute statement. Since appearing by video conference is always more of a task than being here in person, I'm going to ask Thomas Hughes to go first, please.
You have five minutes, sir.