Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
This is the start of the second hour in our recruitment and retention study. We have two witnesses with us. Youri Cormier is from the Conference of Defence Associations, and Dr. John Cowan is principal emeritus at RMC.
In no particular order, I'm going to ask for Mr. Cormier's opening five-minute statement and then go to Dr. Cowan's five-minute statement. We'll go to questions after that.
Mr. Cormier, you have five minutes.