It's been almost two decades that we have been raising concerns with Parliament about National Defence's difficulty with recording its inventory. It's mostly in the last few years related to the quantities and the dollar values assigned to it and is a result of internal control weaknesses in how its employees record and enter these transactions.
We attend their inventory accounts at the end of the year, and when we count items, as you mentioned, like guns, bullets and so on, we can tell you they do an excellent job of tracking those. However, National Defence's inventory has hundreds of thousands of different elements, and it is giving us the comfort that the quantities and the dollar values assigned to them are accurate.
National Defence is still working hard at that. That bar-coding project that it intends to put into place, we believe, will significantly contribute to its ability to reduce errors in its inventory.