National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sharing my time with Mr. Martin, so I'll get right to it. The joint support ships that were ordered and funded during the decade of darkness, at what point are we in the tendering process?

National Defence committee  Recently, the Chief of Defence Staff explained that the Canadian Forces lost a lot of talent in the 1990s. I think he referred to it as a decade of darkness. In light of this admission, is there sufficient maritime expertise in terms of further procurement of fleets?

Fisheries committee   challenging period of cross-training, amalgamation, reorganization, and downsizing. Everybody worked hard to try to make things work with fewer resources. Looking at the military, there was a period when they also had very severe budget restraints, and their top officer called it a decade

National Defence committee   million worth of work that was paid for, with no services given in advance. It would appear that this decade of darkness prevailed in other departments as well. During the same period of time, there was a similar incident involving the Department of National Defence. That involved