—committed to receiving independent oversight and advice for Operation HONOUR by creating a steering committee and an external advisory council.
You asked me what it was that I was having a problem with. The next sentence:
However, we found that the advisory council had met for the first time only in June 2018, and at the time of the audit, the steering committee had never met.
Did the chief of the defence staff know that the council had not met? The steering committee didn't meet until 2018 and the department.... I got it wrong. The advisory council met for the first time only in June 2018, and at the time of the audit, the steering committee had never met. Given that the chief of the defence staff, the top of the house, said that he was creating those two bodies to ensure that Operation Honour was being implemented effectively, did the chief of the defence staff know that the advisory council hadn't met until June 2018 and that the steering committee had never met? If he did, it tells me that it wasn't too darn important. If he didn't know, there's some incompetency in terms of accountability back to the top of the house.