Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for your presentation.
The federal government is currently talking about eliminating jobs and laying off employees. However, if we read your estimates, we can see that there are many problems. For two years in a row, the department returned $1 billion of unused money.
The Auditor General's scathing critique last fall of the helicopter procurement and the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis of the planned acquisition of the F-35 fighter jets are two more examples of budgeting failures by this department.
We think that the current government should look into these issues before eliminating jobs.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on that.