Chair, thank you very much.
I'd like to thank all three of our witnesses for being with us and for their service in uniform and out of uniform. Thank you for your expertise.
The debate nationally and internationally can be grouped into the cluster of the three Cs—climate, COVID and conflict—really sort of cross-fertilizing each other into crises that we have not anticipated and that we need to respond to. For us as parliamentarians, it's a question of making sure that the investments are being made into addressing them.
Is it fair to say that in Canada at the moment we have the expertise on DRR, on emergency preparedness and response, and it's just a question of restructuring that expertise into a more effective organization? Or are there still significant gaps in expertise that we need to address through recruitment on either the civilian or the military side?
That's for whoever would like to take that. I'll take all three of you if you have views on it or just one of you.