National Defence committee  Thank you. This is as much in the judge advocate general's field as it is in mine. There is a consolidated website that now shows all the access opportunities for anybody who wishes to report a situation, and also lists, in detail, all of the support mechanisms for those who hav

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, thank you for the question. I wouldn't characterize my relationship with any members of the Prime Minister's Office as a friendship or anything beyond a working relationship.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I was not involved in that information. I did not provide allegations or information to the Prime Minister's Office about this particular situation.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I was not at that meeting on March 1. I don't know what envelope is being referred to.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Minister. I can begin and will ask JAG to jump in. The process will depend on where the complaint goes. If it comes informally to my office, I would refer it to, for example, the NIS. I would certainly bring in the civilian lawyers and the judge advocate general. A

National Defence committee  Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a number of things that we could look at in terms of independence. The sexual misconduct response centre reports to the deputy minister but is independent of the chain of command. It is an avenue for members of the armed for

Public Accounts committee  This is part of the holistic review that is being done of the entire process to look at our end-to-end delivery. We need to be completely transparent on costs. We need to make cost-effective decisions. We need to be able to manage the inventory and the movement of goods around th

Public Accounts committee  Our service standard for deliveries depends on both the priority assigned to the object, and the delivery methodology, whether we're doing it ourselves or contracting that delivery. I'll ask Troy and General Cadieu to both respond, because this is a very joint process between th

Public Accounts committee  I'll refer to General Cadieu, but that is entirely possible, and that is why we are looking at the service standards and reviewing the documentation, the requirement and the justification for high-priority items. If we divert attention from things that are truly high priority t

Public Accounts committee  General Cadieu is responsible for transportation, so I'll ask him to respond.

Public Accounts committee  Many had been laid off when we went through a period of cuts, so the numbers reduced. A lot of expertise retired, so that train the trainers approach to developing people was lost. We ramped up very quickly a huge range of projects, and we had entry-level employees. We didn't h

Public Accounts committee  The decisions were all made within the department, making reductions in response to direction, so there were choices that were made within the Department of National Defence.

Public Accounts committee  Some of those reductions were on the major project side of things in the capital envelope that Troy manages. As for some of the shortages in people, yes, more people would make a difference in some cases, but this is a systemic problem, the supply chain problem, within the Depart

Public Accounts committee  In terms of specific resources, I'll ask Troy to respond as to whether he believes he needs more people to manage this. When he does require more people, he comes to me through our formal budgeting process within the department, and more people are always needed. Troy, is there

Public Accounts committee  I believe you're referring to vote 5 spending on capital projects. On individual projects we did save approximately $700 million that year, but we did not roll out the spending quite to the extent we intended to. I think it's important to note that the spending is not lost to t