I have found this session educational. Maybe it wasn't really necessary, but I found it educational. I'm not an expert in this area. I'm reassured by the testimony I've heard today, Deputy Minister and Lieutenant Colonel Shuster, and by the answers I've heard from you folks today.
I also want to thank, of course, the Auditor General and her staff, because she is sort of the catalyst for all the changes that have taken place here. Without her report, maybe we wouldn't have this good report card we're getting today.
I do want to pursue one area. I anticipate that there may be people in the public or members of Parliament who assume that the simple solution in the defence department is to just classify everything as “classified”. But as I said, this has been educational to me.
If an entire building such as the Trenton facility were a classified facility, I'm assuming that the contractor, the subcontractor, the architect, the engineers, the tradespeople, the workers on it, the key suppliers, and key service providers to the whole project would all have to go through some fairly stringent clearances. Is that correct, Mr. Fonberg?