National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Bezan, for the question. Quickly, on the JUSTAS program, which is our joint unmanned surveillance and target acquisition program, we currently have a request for information to industry to solicit their views on how they might be able to satisfy our requirements.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I think it is quite true that investments in the Reserve Force are comparable to those earmarked for all other military needs. To obtain a budget that will allow us to do some truly adequate planning, we need confidence. Our purpose is to instil conf

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question, madam. As the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, I am in fact responsible for the cadet program. There is nothing in these supplementary estimates, but to manage the Cadet Program, the Department of Defence invests around $200 million. In addition, in o

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. With regard to our Carling Campus project and the relocation of 8,500 National Defence members in the national capital region, we are working on this in conjunction with Shared Services Canada. Shared Services Canada together with the Department of National

National Defence committee  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my answer. First, I would like to make it clear that our grievance system is not the problem. We are in the process of reviewing the grievances submitted by the members of the Canadian armed forces. In the grievance you are refe

National Defence committee  The Treasury Board responded that it needed to conduct an independent review of the situation. That is what it did and this is the outcome.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the issue that's been referred to, Major Brauer's case, one of the dimensions of the Canadian Forces that we see is the frequent moves of members of the Canadian Armed Forces. In those kinds of circumstances, finding the appropriate locations for your h

National Defence committee  In this particular case, if I may, the point would basically be that he's gone through the grievance procedure. He still has measures that are available to him in terms of judicial review, which is his entitlement to do, and ultimately, at this point, I would just say that the co

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm all for pay increases for the military, for the record.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. My colleague Admiral Finn might have some additional context for this. Certainly, our helicopters, our rotary wing assets that we have, are supporting our activities not only for the land force but obviously in the maritime domain. They are

National Defence committee  Certainly the funds in the supplementary estimates are really dedicated to joint collective training, which is really the way we bring together the elements of the armed forces in a post-Afghanistan kind of context. In the last 10 years we've been very focused in the Canadian For

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Murray, thank you for the question. Certainly there is $25 million in the supplementary estimates that will go directly to continuing to augment the capacity we have at these Joint Personnel Support Units. As you know, these are integrated with VAC and