I won't speak for the department, because that's not my purview. I can only speak to what the air force does. I can tell you, working with our colleagues, the ADM Materiel folks work very hard at making sure Canada gets the best procurement process possible.
The Auditor General points to internal processes that should be improved. That's what it is: internal processes. Could we do things better? We have to be careful when we talk about Chinooks and F-35s. They're both procurement programs, absolutely. They're not the same programs. The complexities are different. Therefore, you can't use always a cookie-cutter approach to all these programs. The rules have to be measured and adapted depending on the challenge of each program.
That's what the Auditor General reflects on, the fact that some of these programs, based on your own current internal rule set, may have deviated. Was there a good reason? And so on and so forth. That's what the department looked at and acknowledged the areas that we would improve. But it's an internal process.
The fact is that great scrutiny is applied to all these programs, given the tense resource atmosphere, where we have to make sure everybody gets what they need. Whether or not a meeting was missed or some other internal process wasn't quite followed to a T doesn't detract from the fact that everybody who gets involved in these programs understands the imperative to be accountable and to get the best bang for the buck for Canada. That I can give you confidence on. That's always the optic. That's always the focus of the staff. Whether or not perfection is what we achieve in the process, I'll leave that to others to debate.