Thanks, Rob.
I don't have very much. Should our project approval guide have had a chapter on it? Yes, it should have. During our 10 years in Bosnia, we actually were occasionally under fire. We did take casualties in Bosnia. We had 100 soldiers who, largely through vehicle accidents and so on, lost their lives through that decade. But we didn't respond by trying to replace major systems at all during that period of time. Nor did we have to do it in Somalia or Kosovo--all those other missions. So this really was the first time in almost 60 years that we had to fix some stuff.
Perhaps just to elaborate on the deputy minister's comments, we were managing about 30 urgent upgrades to core army equipment all at the same time. The Auditor General looked at four of those projects. To some degree, we kind of made it up as we went along, with the Vice Chief's staff and his chief of program staff asking what the minimum documentation needed this week to get this project going would be. Some of those projects were relatively small. Some of them were less than $5 million, and they were at my approval level, which is delegated by the Minister of National Defence. Most of them--probably 12 to 15 of them--were at the Treasury Board level. Then, of course, you're dealing much more extensively with Public Works and the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Vice Chief.
No, we didn't have it in place. We do now. We figured this out. This process is very helpful in making sure that the next time we have to do it, we'll do it more smoothly and with fewer bumps and less stress.