Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for Mr. Jones.
This is quite a bad report. The army reserve is not a new entity. It has been around for so many decades, for over a century, I would say. There are negative factors like funding for 21,000 army reserve soldiers but only 14,000 people were trained; the skill gap is always there, and things like that. The recruitment and retention strategy is not working.
Was it not flagged internally? Why did you wait until the Auditor General pointed it out to start this review process and develop a new strategy?