National Defence committee  That is correct.

National Defence committee  The Operation IMPACT funds are for supplies for the next year. Once the budget has been tabled on March 22, we will come back before the committee. This will probably be in the fall. We will then ask for additional funds to finance Operation IMPACT, i.e. the $306 million. We will

National Defence committee  Correct; this will be added to the National Defence budgetary expenses for next year, to be included in the supplementary estimates.

National Defence committee  All right. Great.

National Defence committee  I believe that when the Prime Minister announced the change in the mission, he announced the funding amounts as well. For the military portion next year, the estimate is about $306 million. That will include some contingency, which we may or may not use. The first year of the mi

National Defence committee  There will certainly be some savings in returning the six CF-18s and the support crew back to Canada, but at the same time we're sending more trainers. This current year is the first full year of Operation Impact. I don't yet have the final numbers for the end of March.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. Regarding the resources for the review of our national defence policy, we are looking at next year. There are no funds marked for this in the 2015-2016 fiscal year budget. A budget will be allocated to complete the review of the national policy and ca

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. We actually put a very important priority on this program. We have a regular program to do this, to clean up unexploded ordnance on not only first nations lands but on any other lands that were used after World War II, etc., and since then

National Defence committee  About $1 million coming from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is going into RMC Kingston, and about $5,600 into RMC Saint-Jean. These research grants are from the SSHRC for projects and labs. I don't have the specific projects for those two, but if you'd like t

National Defence committee  I'll comment quickly on the question of terms. The previous policy had been that after three years of terms the department would convert them into permanent employees. That was suspended as the department worked through its reductions. We're now reviewing that policy. We know the

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the transfers of staff abroad, there are two components. Part of the transfer is to Shared Services Canada, who provide the IT support for defence and military representatives abroad. The other component is a transfer to Global Affairs Canada. When we

National Defence committee  When I was at Infrastructure and Transport, I led that department's efficiency review to find savings there. It was a large department as well, and a regulatory department. We found areas where we could cut and then put money into more important areas, particularly on the regulat

National Defence committee  No, I think it is definitely one of the challenges in procurement. The longer the delays are in some of these major projects, the cost escalation we see can be quite significant, particularly in defence. So when you are budgeting and getting approval of a project at a certain amo

National Defence committee  I'm not familiar with the procurement cuts and levels, but it's certainly something I will be getting into and looking at as we go through our budget and our priority-setting for this coming year.

National Defence committee  Yes, I understood that. I think another one of our challenges will be the defence renewal process, which is how we streamline processes so we can reinvest those savings in other areas where we need resources. Certainly, procurement is going to be one of them. We'll be looking fo