There's an old saying that an army marches on its stomach. According to the AG report, given the need to be well provisioned with food and with materiel and other supplies, I'm not sure that we're able to march very far, very fast.
I think about the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry housed at the John Weir Foote Armoury in my riding of Hamilton Centre. We want to make sure that these men and women who are stationed there get the supplies and the equipment they need.
Section 3.47 says that for “129 high-priority materiel requests”, National Defence was asked “to provide the supply forms that were completed” and other documents, “such as emails and work orders”. The auditors found that “on the basis of the information [they] received, including explanations and supporting documentation, National Defence could not justify the high-priority status of 65% of the requests that were reviewed”.
Do you think high-priority requests are being made for things that may not be considered high priority so that they arrive only 20 days late, say, instead of 40 days late? Because this sounds like a way for our Canadian Forces members to try to find a workaround to this supply management system that doesn't work.