Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome the minister and officials from DND and CAF here. Welcome.
Minister, as you know, in your defence policy update you guys did estimates on where you're going to end up by 2032 on the 2% NATO commitment. Then that changed when you and the Prime Minister were down in Washington at the NATO summit. The PBO said that the numbers that were in the DPU were in error and that it's going to take an extra $41 billion to get to the 2% commitment by 2032.
Why were the numbers fudged in the DPU and didn't even line up with the GDP projections that are used by the Department of Finance?