Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Professor Massie, you wrote an article entitled “Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments”, which appeared in 2023. In it, you mention that before launching missions, the Trudeau and Harper governments both called on Parliament more often than the Mulroney government had done before, for fear of being blamed for missed missions.
In order to solve a problem, you have to be able to identify its root cause. You identified three main shortcomings in Canada's defence policy update. Are these due to the fact that our leaders are afraid of upsetting the public, that they do not take the threats that have already been identified seriously, or that they are unable to set priorities for government spending in general?
Do you think there are one or more reasons for these shortcomings?