Public Accounts committee  I'll be writing to you.

Public Accounts committee  That is it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to come back to Report 3 and compare that with the Auditor General's 2012 spring report on the fighter jet replacement program at that time. You looked at everything at that point in time through the office—sole-sourcing, life-cycle costs, the polic

Public Accounts committee  What would be the nexus, then, to require a proper evaluation of the new life extension program as well as the purchase of this Australian scrap metal?

Public Accounts committee  I'm talking about going forward.

Public Accounts committee  As a parliamentarian, I'll say that it doesn't give me confidence when I see the way that an in-depth dive is done on one report, versus another one here that doesn't have the same depth of study. Neither does it have the same type of evaluation of different mechanisms being empl

Public Accounts committee  Do you believe that National Defence and the Government of Canada don't need to spend $470 million to buy used, rusted-out, old Australian fighter jets?

Public Accounts committee  How much more time do I have?

Public Accounts committee  Let's drill down on the combat capability. Did the Office of the Auditor General actually fly down to look at the condition of the Australian F-18s?

Public Accounts committee  Did your office look at the condition based upon reports that came into National Defence?

Public Accounts committee  Okay. It's my understanding that the planes Australia bought are just slightly older. They're a different block from the fleet we currently have here in Canada, which we bought from 1980 to 1982. I understand that upgrading them to our standards is going to be quite a bit of wo

Public Accounts committee  Going back to paragraph 3.32, it states that “purchasing interim aircraft does not bring National Defence closer to consistently meeting the new operational requirement”. The government, after they were aware of the report, of course, which was tabled last week, announced that th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I hope the 10 seconds of birthday wishes aren't taken out of my time.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, I want to thank our witnesses from the Office of the Auditor General for being here and for the great work they do on behalf of Canadians and on behalf of us as parliamentarians in making sure that dollars and programs are fitting the mandate of the Governm

Public Accounts committee  Is the correct term actually “operational availability”, not a “capability gap”? You do talk about combat capability, which is different from operational availability.