Ladies and gentlemen, let's call this meeting to order. This is the 16th meeting of the national defence committee.
We are continuing our study on recruitment and retention, and we are joined by our two witnesses: Professor Christian Leuprecht, and June Winger, national president of the Union of National Defence Employees.
Before I call on Professor Leuprecht for his five-minute opening statement, ladies and gentlemen, we continue to run the clock here. We're 16 minutes late in starting. I propose to shave a minute off everybody's time on the first round, and a minute off everybody in the second round. Hopefully, that will get us somewhere close to the hour that we have allocated. Unless I see wild and crazy objections, that's what we're going to do.
With that, Professor Leuprecht, you have five minutes, please.