Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I return to a subject I raised before, and that is the issue of military procurement and how we go about it. I'm not asking a political question; this question is really for the government, but I'm interested in your response, particularly the Deputy Minister, with regard to the CADSI report that came out and that identified a number of concerns in terms of how we go about procuring military equipment and the cost of doing it the way we are presently, particularly in terms of the effect on the domestic economy. There were concerns, and I've raised this before, Deputy Minister, in terms of the shortage of project managers. I'd like to know where we are on that.
There have been concerns there may be turf wars between the Prime Minister's Office, Privy Council, Foreign Affairs, Finance, etc., in terms of going about it. One of the major recommendations I was struck by was the creation of a defence industrial strategy to improve the overall governance of the procurement process, so that in fact many of the issues that colleagues have raised could be addressed maybe more efficiently.
I'd be interested in your comments, through the chair.