Okay, so the Privy Council is not telling the department that this is the absolute priority.
The Prime Minister appointed his friend Doug Guzman to head the so-called Defence Investment Agency. He has a taxpayer-paid salary of $679,000 a year and is entitled to a 33% performance bonus, which brings him up to almost $1 million. Is this type of compensation appropriate—it's higher than any other bureaucrat's—and why would you say it's appropriate?