Mr. Chair, I want to change gears a little. I want to get back to a previous question about the Auditor General's report 3, from the fall of 2018, and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute report on Canada's future fighter replacement, “The Catastrophe: Assessing the Damage from Canada's Fighter Replacement Fiasco”. I recommend that the minister actually read this report. It is a condemnation of the government's management of the Department of National Defence and procurement in general.
In that report it clearly stated that the Auditor General, in a draft report, recommended in paragraph 59 that “National Defence should not purchase interim aircraft until it implements a plan to recruit and train pilots and technicians.”
Who in the department would intimidate the independent office of the Auditor General to remove that recommendation?