Chair, thank you very much, and a very warm welcome to our senior leadership team of the Canadian Forces.
I would like to thank all of our witnesses for their service to our nation.
I would like to start with a proposition, which is that the nature of warfare and conflict have changed fundamentally. Wars are different; they are more internally focused, and so are displacements. Cyber-technology has become much more important. There may have been, as a result of that, or there may be at the moment, a convergence of the skill sets between the private sector and the Canadian Forces.
I wonder if I can get a quick reaction on whether that's a fair statement—whether that's a trend you're discerning—that because of the changing nature of what the Canadian Forces do, there is greater competition for those skills.