Mr. Chair, thank you very much.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for being with us.
General Kelsey, thank you for your service.
I'd also like to thank our colleague, Alex Ruff, who's with us today, for his service.
I'd like to spend my time on a brief discussion of the threat setting in 2022.
In very broad strokes, we have moved from the 1990s, the collapse of the former Soviet Union, into and through the post-9/11 era and the Arab Spring. We're now at a time when, once again, one of the great powers has exercised military aggression against another country. We're having discussions about cybersecurity. We're having discussions about technology, geopolitical threats, secondary and tertiary implications and also a lot of intersection points between the military and civilian sectors.
Could you each give us a brief assessment of how you see the threat environment in 2022 and what the key priorities are for Canada? Perhaps you could sum up some of the points you made earlier, but maybe add some new ones as well.