I'm glad you mentioned that. I remember in this committee, several times, bringing up the fact that the Parliamentary Budget Officer had to go down to the U.S. to meet with the Pentagon to get costing on frigates so they could bring it back here and extrapolate from it for our program, because DND was refusing to release information. Here we have the U.S. being more open on our costs than our own defence department.
Is it a lack of political will? Does it require the new defence minister to say, “Get it together and be transparent”, or are we stuck with red tape in the bureaucracy? Where is this coming from? Is it just baked into our system?