Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the witnesses.
Dr. Lagassé, in 2023, you wrote an article entitled “Defence Policy and Procurement Costs: The Case for Pessimism Bias”.
That was a few months before the defence policy was released. You said that the department was rather optimistic when it prepared a budget, but that it perhaps had to, if you'll pardon the expression, set its sights on being more pessimistic.
When you saw the new policy, did you feel that the department had taken into account the article you had written a few months earlier?