With respect, if we're having supplementary estimates sometime in the fall, then it's going to be quite a while before this money gets out the door.
One of the other things in the defence review discusses what I would call “providing a Canadian military that reflects the Canadian population”. I applaud the government for its goals, but we had the Auditor General say last fall that his office couldn't find any evidence of very specific plans to reach those targets, whether in regard to women in the military, or aboriginal people, or visible minorities.
We asked you in the estimates debate if you would table those policies, and you said that you would when they were fully developed. Now today you said in your opening statement that we “have put in place targeted initiatives to attract, enrol, and retain women and men who reflect the diversity of Canadians.”
What are those targeted initiatives, and will you table those with this committee so we can see that the initiatives actually exist and there are resources behind them?