That's an excellent question. Thank you.
It's really puzzling, isn't it? It's almost impossible to figure out why, because it defies all logic. None of us would run our households this way, and yet for some reason National Defence continues to.
A big challenge is that there is a very small amount of SWE, the salary/wage envelope, and there is a very convoluted, lengthy staffing process as well. Those two are hindrances when you have the ease of being able to have a great budget for O&M where you can just draw the money off to be able to do the contracts.
I think it's been made so easy. Like I said, we had this review services audit that says that they're supposed to provide this analysis, but it's not being done. I can just point to Shearwater. The other day they decided they were going to do some maintenance on three military hangars and they were contracting that work out. When we asked them for their analysis of the cost-value benefit, they didn't know what we were talking about.
We described a business case. They had no idea. We actually provided them with a business case, and management came back and said, that's not our job. If it's not their job, whose job is it?