Public Accounts committee  The Department of National Defence had and still has a multi-party security program. This means that everywhere National Defence is present, whether in Canada or abroad, a security system is in place. Mr. Shuster is a key element of that system, but there are also military polic

Public Accounts committee  That is correct, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, if I may respond to that and help put the question and the observation about the 8,500 contracts between 2002 and 2007 into context, National Defence has more than 20,000 buildings, more than 13,000 works, and more than 5,000 kilometres of roads, so the construction

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you very much for the invitation to brief you today on the Department of National Defence's response to the Auditor General's October 2007 audit of security and contracting. As you know, my name is Scott