Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for being here today.
Mr. Berthelette, I would like to start by stating on the record that as far as I understood the report—maybe Ms. Thomas will be able to elaborate on this—the question of a capability gap, which has been subject to so much questioning, is not an invention of the Liberal government. It was a capability gap in terms of the obligations we have to NORAD and NATO, if we are to provide the maximum and the best of our capability to meet our obligations. Am I correct?