Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, gentlemen, for being here today.
There's a concern that a personnel crisis is contributing to our inability to ensure our national security. That's the paramount issue here. Second, a recruitment crisis is clearly causing chaos. Something has to give, and we need to have a plan. Retired general Rick Hillier has publicly stated that he has been given information that the personnel crisis is as critical as a 50% shortage. I realize operational security precludes you from commenting on just how bad things are in the military, but I think it's really important for us to understand what aspects of the CAF training must be scaled back due to the crisis. Just recently, General Eyre has publicly stated that we have to scale back.
What precisely, in your opinion, must be scaled back in the army, in the navy, and in the air force respectively? Second, is this drawdown an admission that we cannot meet our NORAD and NATO commitments?