I think the first issue we raised was that National Defence still hasn't identified who among its members should be getting access to military housing, what type of housing that should be, or where it should be.
For example, we identified in paragraph 5.27 in that report that an external panel was brought in, and that external panel's recommendation was for 5,800 military housing units in 30 locations across the country. They said that's what the inventory should be: 5,800. After National Defence looked at it, they didn't agree with what the external panel recommended and they came back with a requirement of almost 12,000 units across 24 locations.
There, you have two different organizations looking at the issue of what the size of the inventory should be. One came back with a number that was twice as big as the other one's number, so I think the very first thing is to simply get an answer to that question. What is it we're trying to provide? Where do we need to provide it, and whom do we need to provide it to?
Their policy says things like if the local market is deep enough to be able to provide housing, then there's no need for the military to provide housing; the local market can provide housing. But despite the fact they know that in locations such as Halifax and Valcartier the local markets are deep enough, they're still providing some housing there.
Again, these are all things that just need to be looked at from that sort of overall planning and policy point of view. It's just doing the analysis and getting an answer to those questions—who, where, and what—in terms of looking at that whole inventory of housing.