Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for your service and your commitment to Canada.
I'm going to start with acknowledging that there have been lots of recent comments with regard to the Canadian Armed Forces and the personnel crisis directly affecting how we're able to do our business. The way I see it is that this is directly impacting our ability to defend the Arctic. We can't defend the Arctic without people. It seems to me we need to up our game.
Should we not be specialists in Arctic warfare? Compared to 10 years ago, how do our abilities to operate in the north differ? Are we making progress, or are we regressing?