I thank my colleague for her comments.
I could have proposed that the report be submitted annually, but I tried to cut that in half by proposing that it be submitted every six months. Quite frankly, data is provided on a regular basis in the four-part tables of the Department of National Defence. The forms related to this data are rather informal.
If you're providing information to a parliamentary committee, you have to do it in a very formal way with a lot of checks and balances. As far as I know, it represents quite a heavy workload for a small team. All the data is already provided. Of course, the committee always has the right to ask the Minister of National Defence, the Minister of Public Services and Procurement or officials to testify before the committee.
Every six months we will get data, and over the next two years we will get data four times: once in June and once in December of each year. I think that is a sufficient amount of data.
I rely on the members of the committee. I hope that we will be able to agree on this. If we can't, we'll see what we do three months after the vote on the biannual reports.