Very good. Thank you.
Now I would like to welcome our witnesses.
As an individual, we have, by video conference, retired vice-admiral Duncan Miller, commander of the Canadian naval forces and allied combat logistics commander.
I have to tell members of the committee that we have some technical problems with the system of Mr. Miller. We're going to try, and we're going to ask the interpreters if they are okay with that. If not, we have all of his notes, in both languages, so we will share everything with you.
In the room with us, we have retired rear-admiral Ken Summers, commander of the Canadian Forces in the Middle East.
We're going to start with Mr. Summers, and after that we're going to go to Mr. Miller.
Mr. Summers, you have five minutes for your opening statement. The floor is yours.