Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses who are here today.
We're here at this committee, and we have this study today on the Liberal defence industrial strategy. This is a Liberal study, by the way. It was commenced by a Liberal member, and it's very unfortunate that we can't get a single Liberal minister here. I understand that there are scheduling conflicts, but with well over a month's notice, we'd expect maybe one Liberal minister or high-priced Liberal bureaucrat to show up. Apparently, all of them—
