National Defence committee  I certainly can. It comes up in a number of areas, not only from our union colleagues but also when we talk to military members who are on base managing budgets. We often hear that they have money in a pocket for contractors, but they'd rather have employees. In some cases it's

National Defence committee  We have made the military police aware of the situation. Mr. Yeo's employment has been terminated. In fact, he resigned before we could move to termination. We are continuing to investigate any potential work he was doing. To date, we have confirmed that, of the contracts he was

National Defence committee  The department will co-operate with any police investigation. As it relates to Mr. Yeo's work as a consultant with National Defence, he then did the same work as an employee. This was an example of someone doing full-time contract work until somebody realized, in theory, it would

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. I'm going to start answering, but I'm going to ask General Eyre to add his comments about the different kinds of ammunition. Number one is that there's only so much you can do to increase production on an existing line. That production has increase

National Defence committee  To do that, we have to work with private companies, and it will take a long time to build the new facilities. We can start spending that money in the next few years. The major investments will start once the building of a new line starts. That involves a lot of design and engine

National Defence committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I will start. Number one, the projects that were already launched under SSE still hold. That work is continuing. On the capital side, just over 50% of those projects are either closed out or are in close-out. We can provide a list of project updates if that's

National Defence committee  I will start with the housing, but the wrap-up to that question actually touched on some other elements, including recruiting and retention, that I will leave some time for my colleague to maybe touch on. On the housing front, as the minister had indicated, there's a broader se

National Defence committee  Maybe I will start, and then I'll see if the chief of the defence staff and Pete want to add anything. What we have done is adjust the process to make sure that the reimbursements to rangers are happening more quickly, because we do acknowledge that the time delay, the processin

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. The decision to update the defence policy is a very recent one. At the time of the government's announcement on spending cuts, we didn't know exactly how much money was going to be added to the defence policy. What I would suggest for members, as yo

National Defence committee  I'd say it's more an exercise in making sure that the money the department spends is better targeted. It's targeted to the most valuable areas possible in terms of maximizing readiness. When we look at the exercise to reallocate well on onboarding new projects, we want to protec

National Defence committee  I'll start with ammunition, and then I can turn to the other chief on cyber. On the funds for Ukraine and ammunition, the Czechs have done a great job of setting up a pool to acquire ammunition. Those funds have been transferred and those acquisitions are ongoing. On the ramp-u

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to add something about the promise to establish a rapid reaction force for 2026 or 2027. That's a discussion with the United Nations around a rapid response force for peacekeeping. We will continue to work with the United Nations to look for possible opp

National Defence committee  Perhaps I will take that one, Mr. Chair. On pillar two, indeed, the U.S. announced last week that they're exploring things with Japan. We are actively engaged with AUKUS partners on items related to pillar two—AI, quantum, etc.—and we continue to work with pillar-two partners or

National Defence committee  AUKUS partners have indicated that they are working on a framework for adding other countries as partners on projects. That framework is not yet developed, but we are actively engaged in discussions.

National Defence committee  The options analysis has started. We have had a team meeting with various manufacturers of traditional conventional submarines. We will be looking at options to bring to the government for a decision. They will include conventional versus nuclear, but also the number of submarine