Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I know a number of you are either retiring or moving on. I want to thank you all for your service, for your time at the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, and for serving Canada and serving our troops—although, with so many people running away, it's starting to look like a ship might be sinking.
No? Okay. I thought maybe it was, “Man overboard.”
Anyway, I go back to the issue of readiness, which has been a story and a major concern. We are now sending our forces into Latvia without that battle group having the battalion-level training we routinely have done at Wainwright, so my concern is how this is impacting our ability. I know we're saying it's great to exercise with our allies, but I can tell you that our allies are going out there battle-ready. I question whether or not our guys and gals are in tip-top fighting condition when they don't have that time to train, which we have routinely done in the past.