Thank you, Chair.
I think I'll state the obvious. This is a staggering report of poor value for money, poor systems of acquisition, poor monitoring. But that's not really where I want to go. Where I really want to go is to the solutions.
One of the examples that is mentioned in both the Auditor General's report and your report, Mr. Forster, is this. I'll read from the Auditor General's point eight:
While it is difficult to forecast how much it will cost to support major military equipment, the decisions that National Defence makes today about which equipment to buy and how it will support that equipment will have significant financial impacts for decades to come.
Then I'll refer to your report, sir, just given to us, that projects costed on a life-cycle basis include the future fighter capacity project. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about improvements.
On the purchase, as introduced by the minister into the House, of Super Hornets without an open competition, what is the full life-cycle cost of purchasing the interim fleet of Super Hornets?