Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
My colleague Ms. Normandin asked a question of the minister on procurement and other departments. We hear all the time about the issue of silos and departments. It's a real issue. I've been here 20 years, and it's still an issue 20 years after I arrived.
There are probably no easy answers to fix this, but do you have any suggestions or recommendations, based on your experiences, for how we could streamline the process? Remember that a lot of the concern here is that when we do finally decide to move forward with things, either they take a longer time or we have to go through a process that takes many years because we find that some of our allies are able to procure things in a quicker fashion. That's not a system that you guys set up, but you're now part of it. You see it. You probably witness it every day. You're probably frustrated like we are as well.
Do you have any solutions for us or any thought processes for how we could do a better job as a government to procure defence—or procure anything, really—in a timely fashion? We're here talking about defence, so we'll leave it at that.