National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  No.

National Defence committee  Which part of it?

National Defence committee  In general, yes.

National Defence committee  Today.

National Defence committee  Yes. Relative to the current defence policy, we're in relatively good shape with the fleet we have right now. Depending on how you view the future and what you would wish the navy to do down the road, what I'm laying out is where I think the resources match up against policy. Ri

National Defence committee  I think the most important metric is to look at what the government actually wants the armed forces to do and calibrate the budget against that rather than an arbitrary target. I just think that—

National Defence committee  I think it would be about 1.3% of GDP. That would give you something like a $5-billion to $6-billion increase overall to the budget, if I had my druthers.

National Defence committee  I think there are definitely deficiencies there. I think the most acute problems are around the capital front, though. If the government could get an effective human resources system, that's something you could address in a relatively shorter time frame. The real deficiencies are

National Defence committee  It depends on how you measure it.

National Defence committee  By the NATO metric it's 0.99%.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for the invitation today to speak about naval readiness. In my opening remarks, which I'll try to keep quite short, I'll make some fairly broad comments about the navy writ large and DND, and then I'd be happy to focus on any areas

National Defence committee  I don't know the specific terms. I'm not that familiar with their strategic thinking.

National Defence committee  Other than those two countries, it's a wide series of strategic nuclear arrangements in principle. The American nuclear deterrent that we live under—