Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I will first turn to professor Lagassé.
You've said that national defence policies and funding for the department are poorly aligned and that, given the needs, spending by the department should be more than the current 2% of GDP.
Yet the Parliamentary Budget Officer told us last week that not all of the Department of National Defence's budget has been spent and that the projected value of unused funds for 2023-2024 stood at about $4 billion.
How do you explain the fact that, on the one hand, amounts earmarked in the budget are insufficient and, on the other, funds remain unspent? What exactly is the problem?