National Defence committee  I have a couple of thoughts here, and then the vice-chief may wish to jump in. Number one, there are lots of reasons that cases do not get transferred. The member has outlined a few of them, but there are others as well. I'm not aware of any measures in place, beyond numerous class actions that are under way, to look backwards.

National Defence committee  I will answer your questions first, but I imagine that General Allen and Ms. Xavier will want to add something. I'd say they might both want to add something. It's true that the Canadian Armed Forces are really the last resort to respond to emergencies. We're trying to make sure that the demand on the armed forces for domestic responses is as manageable as possible.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just very quickly, I think the minister already covered it, but we have Mr. Crosby and Ms. Crosby, respectively in charge of procurement and our chief financial officer. The vice-chief you know, and we have Madame Xavier as well as her chief financial officer, Monsieur St-Pierre.

National Defence committee  I certainly can. It comes up in a number of areas, not only from our union colleagues but also when we talk to military members who are on base managing budgets. We often hear that they have money in a pocket for contractors, but they'd rather have employees. In some cases it's vice versa: They can't find employees, but they can get contractors.

National Defence committee  We have made the military police aware of the situation. Mr. Yeo's employment has been terminated. In fact, he resigned before we could move to termination. We are continuing to investigate any potential work he was doing. To date, we have confirmed that, of the contracts he was working on before he became an employee, services were delivered in a satisfactory manner.

National Defence committee  The department will co-operate with any police investigation. As it relates to Mr. Yeo's work as a consultant with National Defence, he then did the same work as an employee. This was an example of someone doing full-time contract work until somebody realized, in theory, it would be more efficient to make him an employee.

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. I'm going to start answering, but I'm going to ask General Eyre to add his comments about the different kinds of ammunition. Number one is that there's only so much you can do to increase production on an existing line. That production has increased from 3,000 to 5,000 per month.

National Defence committee  To do that, we have to work with private companies, and it will take a long time to build the new facilities. We can start spending that money in the next few years. The major investments will start once the building of a new line starts. That involves a lot of design and engineering work, so that work will start.

National Defence committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I will start. Number one, the projects that were already launched under SSE still hold. That work is continuing. On the capital side, just over 50% of those projects are either closed out or are in close-out. We can provide a list of project updates if that's helpful.

National Defence committee  I will start with the housing, but the wrap-up to that question actually touched on some other elements, including recruiting and retention, that I will leave some time for my colleague to maybe touch on. On the housing front, as the minister had indicated, there's a broader set of issues happening on housing, because there are two solution sets here.

National Defence committee  Maybe I will start, and then I'll see if the chief of the defence staff and Pete want to add anything. What we have done is adjust the process to make sure that the reimbursements to rangers are happening more quickly, because we do acknowledge that the time delay, the processing time it was taking, was not helpful.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. The decision to update the defence policy is a very recent one. At the time of the government's announcement on spending cuts, we didn't know exactly how much money was going to be added to the defence policy. What I would suggest for members, as you watch this space going forward around defence spending....

National Defence committee  I'd say it's more an exercise in making sure that the money the department spends is better targeted. It's targeted to the most valuable areas possible in terms of maximizing readiness. When we look at the exercise to reallocate well on onboarding new projects, we want to protect readiness at all costs.

National Defence committee  I'll start with ammunition, and then I can turn to the other chief on cyber. On the funds for Ukraine and ammunition, the Czechs have done a great job of setting up a pool to acquire ammunition. Those funds have been transferred and those acquisitions are ongoing. On the ramp-up of domestic production of ammunition, these are long timelines.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to add something about the promise to establish a rapid reaction force for 2026 or 2027. That's a discussion with the United Nations around a rapid response force for peacekeeping. We will continue to work with the United Nations to look for possible opportunities there.