National Defence committee  To the best of my knowledge—we manage a program on behalf of the government. Other departments submit applications for research in the areas of national security. As the money is going to the RCMP, Natural Resources, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Nuclear Safety Commission, the

National Defence committee  It doesn't explicitly. The money is for the defence procurement strategy. Industry Canada is to set up an office to study defence analytics and for value-added propositions related to defence procurement. That was never funded previously. It was in budget 2016. That money will g

National Defence committee  We already discussed that a bit earlier, before you came—

National Defence committee  No, no, that's all right. RMC applies to the program, to the granting councils. I don't have the list of exactly what the chairs are, but we'd be happy to provide it to you. Whether it's all in Kingston or there's a chair in Saint-Jean, I'm not sure.

National Defence committee  In the last budget there was money provided. There was the $360 million for this year's operation. Keep in mind that when we put somebody into that theatre for a year, there are always follow-on costs for the next two years after to replenish stores, supplies, munitions; so the

National Defence committee  To add to the vice chief's comments, there's an advisory team in Iraq, advising the Iraqi government, and the budget allows for a similar kind of capacity-building team in Jordan and Lebanon, as well, to help with the kind of capacity building in the region, to help those countri

National Defence committee  The amount was set aside for small arms, basically, to give to the peshmerga, so that when we're training them there, they have small arms. One of the conditions of that program was that the Iraqi government had to approve in writing that it was okay for Canada to provide that e

National Defence committee  In the bigger picture, when the government came to office and looked at Iraq, they asked us to come back with more of a whole-of-government package. You saw it in the renewal of Operation Impact. There was a lashing up. We're seeing it even more as we look at options for peace su

National Defence committee  Natural Resources Canada built the centre. To date, the costs are about $25 million.

National Defence committee  Maybe I'll ask Pat to do that. We had discussed it a bit earlier. However, yes, generally it appears to be in reasonable shape.

National Defence committee  I'm sorry, that's $9.5 million for...?

National Defence committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair, I'm not sure which item the member is referring to. I don't see that one.

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, they're not uncommon on major procurement projects when your procurement officials are dealing with sensitive commercial information, financial information provided by proponents or suppliers, as well as national security information. In terms of the work being done

National Defence committee  For this year, I don't. I believe for the previous year, Canada was about 0.98% of GDP in its defence spending.