National Defence committee  Their rank is the order in which they're listed.

National Defence committee  Yes, absolutely. I believe, just off the top of my head—

National Defence committee  Sure. Absolutely yes on the benefits; off the top of my head, I believe it's about $1 billion already.

National Defence committee  The process was different in the sense that the Government of Canada has changed the accounting standard. Historically, we used to assign project budgets in fixed dollars and then escalate them when we actually got closer to contracts. We've moved away from that process now, and

National Defence committee  Not to my knowledge. It's still the same budgeting process.

National Defence committee  It's supposed to be in terms of the streamlining, but my sense is that it is by far the least developed component of the whole defence procurement strategy, and I'm not really aware of any concrete action.

National Defence committee  I would agree with you that those sets of procurements you outlined were successes, but I think the important thing is to look at those and look at exactly what lessons you can take away. Regarding the first two for airlift, I would argue, as would most of the people you talked

National Defence committee  Very briefly, I think there's potential value there in at least three ways. First is any economic spinoff from the domestic economic activity, which you would offset against any price difference somewhere else. Second, having a domestic shipbuilding industry is important for su

National Defence committee  That's right. That goes as far back as public accounts have made those records relatively easy to find.

National Defence committee  To be honest, I haven't done that kind of analysis.

National Defence committee  To my knowledge the prioritization issue is still outstanding. There has been an active effort in National Defence to undergo a process in conjunction with the renewal of the Canada First defence strategy to look at prioritizing a shorter list of the very long list of projects th

National Defence committee  Sure. I think the member raised earlier that during program review and the other major departmental reductions that started in 1989 as the federal government adjusted to the new fiscal situation in dealing with the deficit, a select group of those faced a disproportionate impac

National Defence committee  Do you mean in terms of the process?

National Defence committee  I think the process has undergone some pretty significant evolution. It's become more intergovernmental. There are a lot of different perspectives and different viewpoints about whether or not that's made things better or made things worse. Some people, such as my colleague here,

National Defence committee  I think you have to look at that package and that strategy as a bunch of constituent parts. We're only starting to see some of the governance structures being put in place right now. It's also supposed to be accompanied by a revised industrial offset policy, which is still very m