Thank you very much, Chair.
I'll start with this one first. There was a recent article that suggested that nearly half of Canada's air fleet was not serviceable to meet readiness and training standards in 2020 and 2021. Now we know that the current government has yet to be able to name a winning bid for the fighter jets and that the F-35 procurement process is already seven years in the making.
Your Excellency and Vice-Admiral Bishop, have either of you ever found yourselves in a position where you were working with our allied NATO partners trying to find other ways to assist NATO because our equipment was either not serviceable or inoperable without our allies' assistance?