Public Accounts committee  What I would simply say is that the issue of fishing is one of the ones that we identified as the risks that are accompanying the greater access to the Arctic. Therefore, it's one of the issues that the closing of the gaps that we identified would be intended to address, which wo

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Part of what we were referring to was the use of ports that our allies have. For example, there are ports in Greenland that belong to Denmark and ports in Alaska that belong to the United States.

Public Accounts committee  In our 2021 report, we noted that the tools needed to manage risk and oversee the production schedule for the ships were not necessarily fit for purpose. That was part of our recommendations to remedy the situation.

Public Accounts committee  What we have noted in our second report is that the situation has actually gotten worse in some instances. That means that the action plan had not produced the expected results. Some measures had still not been implemented. Work remains to be done.

Public Accounts committee  I think all the departments that are part of the national shipbuilding strategy are responsible. The strategy includes four main departments. They have to work together to ensure that the strategy is producing the right results.

National Defence committee  I would say we didn't really look at the motivation for those actions. What we did notice was that in 2015 a work plan was identified to take action on it, but there was no follow-up on that. Again, it's a circumstance in which action needs to be taken and there needs to be a pro

National Defence committee  The comment I would offer is that life extensions don't always extend life as much as is hoped for. That's one of the concerns we have when we see counting on life extension as the means by which you cover gaps. There have been a couple of recent examples of Coast Guard ships tha

National Defence committee  I'm actually going to turn it to Chantal to speak to that specific case.

National Defence committee  If I might comment briefly.... In the previous report, one of the things we commented on was something called a “target state” in the shipbuilding strategy: the ability to produce ships efficiently. That was part of the strategy. There were some issues that we identified with how

National Defence committee  I think I would just add, following a little bit on an earlier response, that timely decision-making is important too. That's one of the issues we see with the satellite programs. Decisions to start taking action are happening after it's too late to get the result in a timely man

National Defence committee  As we mentioned in the report, there are plans for both military and civilian drones to operate in the Arctic. They are not specifically aligned with the rangers, and we didn't look at the capabilities of the rangers in this report.

National Defence committee  The rangers were not a significant part of our work because their role is mostly on the ground. They don't have a maritime mission, per se. What we do speak to in the report is that, of course, where there are communities, where there are people, that is another source of mariti

National Defence committee  We would require more details on what Transport Canada intends to do about the NAS program. I would say the issue of ships was also addressed in our 2021 report on the national shipbuilding strategy. In that, Public Services and Procurement Canada, in particular, committed to s

National Defence committee  The focus of our audit was on surveillance of waters, which is separate from surveillance of the airspace, which is the responsibility of NORAD, mostly. The one area where they do overlap is that NORAD has a maritime warning mission, as it's called, but that really comes at the t

National Defence committee  In terms of the maritime surveillance, I think we would need to see the detailed action plans of the entities to know how they're going to deal with some of the issues we've raised.