It might be interesting, if you don't already do it, to go through all the departments every year and check what they do supplementaries on. If you start to see patterns, you could ask whether they aren't just manipulating things so the budget looks different.
With respect to procurement, departments of defence throughout the world are often obliged to make lightning-quick decisions—whether they're saving their countries or helping other countries. Are the decisions made quickly enough? They have problems. First of all, there are huge expenditures. We get complicated by Canadian benefits. We want a secure producer making the equipment—not the Taliban or some such group. And the situation is always changing. The worry is not embarrassment produced by the Auditor General--if we fail in this, Canadians die. By the time we get these procurement things done, new technology has developed that could put us at a disadvantage and cost lives.