Shelby Kramp-Neuman at the National Defence Committee

On June 9th, 2023. See this statement in context.

June 9th, 2023 / 8:50 a.m.

Conservative

Shelby Kramp-Neuman Conservative Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON

That's excellent.

Thank you for your brief testimony. I'm sure we'll get into some questions from all of the respective parties.

With regard to my first question, in the PBO's 2022 report entitled “Planned Capital Spending Under Secure, Secure, Engaged—Canada's Defence Policy: 2022 Update”, it states that the capital spending from 2023-24 through to 2027-28 “potentially raises questions regarding the ability of the Government to manage increased procurement activity.”

Could you speak of any recent progress that the government has made towards ensuring that procurement problems do not arise from the dialled-up defence spending over this period?

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