Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll just quickly read the Auditor General's recommendations. It says, “National Defence should develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies”. The second one says, “National Defence should analyze what upgrades are required for the CF-18 to be operationally relevant until 2032”.
At first glance, anybody reading it will think that National Defence has not done anything so far, but only somewhere in the middle of the report it actually says that “National Defence has plans to address some risks...these investment decisions will not be enough”. I think the key word there is “enough”.
When it comes to recommendations, at least in my opinion, it should have been “National Defence should develop regional strategies”. Don't you think so?