National Defence committee  From the information we've collected over the last nine months—and we don't know if we have just scratched the surface—we have identified that the wasteful spending going on is becoming more systemic. I don't have a dollar figure. Tim, is there anything that you discovered?

National Defence committee  The type of work we describe in the report is the construction of buildings where.... We have photographs that show that after the contractor left, there is definitely a break between the building and the foundation. In one instance, we have a kitchen where the contractor came in and had to pour a concrete floor.

National Defence committee  The solution is that a lot of the work that DCC is undertaking now is outside their mandate. They're doing the small jobs on the bases, where their mandate is to look after the bigger administration of the construction of buildings. The resources are inside the department to do that work.

National Defence committee  There's a creep going on that the cost of doing business is going to rise. We have evidence of different work that our members did, and the same job was done by the private sector. The costs of that were just extraordinary compared to what it costs for the private sector to do it.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, committee members. I'd like to start by thanking you for the invitation to discuss the Canadian Forces' readiness from my perspective as the national president of the Union of National Defence Employees. I look forward to answering your questions in the short time we will have following my comments.