Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer for being here today. I do appreciate all the hard work that the PBO does in keeping us, as parliamentarians, informed. I appreciate the report that you just filed.
We have lapsed spending. We just saw that in the public accounts that were tabled this week. There was another $1.5 billion down, and $2.5 billion before that. Both of those big lapsed spending amounts—$4 billion-plus—were under Minister Anand. Now, we also know, as we've heard in testimony here in the past couple of weeks, about the recruitment crisis that we have: 16,000 troops short and 10,000 undertrained and undeployable. The Liberal government has undermined the Canadian Armed Forces.
If we increase numbers and get money back toward where it's supposed to be, even if the government had just hit their budget numbers before they take this $1 billion cut out of this current year, where would, in your mind, the ratio be, tooth to tail?
You're talking about a third right now of actual direct military effect. If budgets were met, if troop strength was up, would that ratio change significantly?