John McKay at the National Defence Committee

I call the meeting to order.

Thank you, Mr. Clerk, for testing all the various pieces of technology.

I thank the witnesses in advance for their patience.

Colleagues, I see we're about 35 minutes past our starting time. I would propose to go to at least six o'clock unless there are wild objections to the contrary. We have extraordinary witnesses today, not the least of whom are Mr. Kolga and Mr. Hampson.

I appreciate both of you and what you have to say.

With that, I'm going to ask Mr. Hampson for his five-minute opening statement, after which we'll turn to Mr. Kolga for his five-minute opening statement and then to questions.

Thank you.