Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Congratulations, General Carignan, on your appointment as CDS.
Welcome to you as well, General Kelsey. Welcome to the position.
I'm looking forward to our ongoing productive relationship.
Your predecessors have always talked very plainly and bluntly with the committee in explaining the threat environment that we're facing and the readiness of the Canadian Armed Forces. You mentioned your three R's: retention, recruitment and readiness. Let's drill down on that.
The last time General Eyre appeared here, he was talking about being 16,000 troops short of where we need to be at full strength, and there are a further 10,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces who are undertrained and undeployable.
Do you have an update on those numbers? Where are we today on how short we are and on how unprepared some of our members are?