Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Mr. Giroux.
Thank you for being with us, and thanks to your colleagues as well. It's always a pleasure to see you.
Near the end of your statement, you mentioned a major problem, which the committee noted in 2012 and 2019, and that's the fact that government spending and the budget don't match up.
Does that explain the other problem that recently arose, which you reported and which is the reason you're here today?
I'm talking about the $15 billion discrepancy in the National Defence budget that the President of the Treasury Board couldn't explain. Even the explanation given by the deputy minister, who was accompanying her, wasn't clear. That's why we asked you to appear today to explain the $15 billion amount, which doesn't appear in the documents initially presented to parliamentarians.
We're being asked to approve spending that doesn't match up. Does what you said today explain this $15 billion discrepancy in the budget?