There are tons of procurements that move forward that are fully successful. We just never hear about them. I would say a good 75% of procurements move through. It's the big rocks that get a lot of controversy and generate a lot of attention. The reality is that we buy quite a bit on time. It's not necessarily on schedule, but we do buy it.
We focus so much on the negative that it leads to what Professor Kimball noted. I'm even a part of this, in a sense. When we focus only on the failures, we end up putting more and more process in to control the failures. We have built up so many controls around the process that there's now no room for speed. Every single time there's a scandal or problem, our solution is always to pile on more oversight and more controls.
The problem in Canadian defence procurement is not the lack of oversight. There is, in a sense, too much of it. I say this as somebody who was involved in that oversight.