Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Thank you so much to the witnesses. This has been an incredible conversation and discussion.
Most of my questions have actually been answered, so I don't want to belabour the point on some of those questions, but National Defence recognizes that climate change is a threat multiplier. I know this is kind of a knuckleball question here for you, but since we've got you here I wanted to maybe pose it because I think it's something that the report we're going to be publishing should at least touch upon in some way.
We've seen over the last number of years the CAF focusing a lot of resources, a lot of time and energy, on domestic emergency operations. Obviously, that takes away from and challenges expeditionary missions and roles and whatnot.
I wanted to ask, in your opinion, how climate change is changing how we think about defence procurement and specifically the national shipbuilding strategy, and how it should factor into that conversation.
I'm not sure if you've given that a lot of thought, but I'm just wondering if you might be able to guide us a bit in that thinking.