Thank you very much.
Madame Saint Pierre, when you were talking earlier, you spoke in your opening remarks about openness and transparency in terms of deliverables, and yet, as I said in my first round of questioning, there's a sense of increasing secrecy. A headline reads, “DND's cloak of secrecy...'excessively secretive'”.
Last year we had audits of 12 military projects totalling $7.3 billion that were considered high risk, over budget, two years behind schedule, etc., and of another 52 projects totalling $1 billion that were considered high risk, and yet we have no information on these projects and what the problems were.
My question is, how are we to differentiate between the fair need, obviously, to have some confidentiality agreements in terms of deliverables and contracts but also transparency so that the taxpayer knows we're not getting ourselves into boondoggles when we're trying to follow various procurement practices yet don't really know what's happening? Certainly red flags are rising.