Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, that's a great question. I can say that some people probably do take six months. It depends upon their personal circumstance, on their medical situation, on whether they're from out of country. We have to take all of those factors into consideration as we look toward

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I'm confident that we have the initiatives moving forward. We are certainly going to work towards those targets that I mentioned earlier. They are challenging targets, as I've said.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question. The four phases were specifically for the retention strategy, and we're looking at reaching final operational capability for that by the summer of 2018. That's looking at those specific elements. One of the areas that I think you would be v

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, as I mentioned earlier, the Guardian project is a very detailed and fairly large project that consists of four releases of software. The first release is coming up in May, and in fact what you're talking about, the readiness reporting, very specifically the civilian qu

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, it's a good point. It's going to be difficult. I'm not going to sugar-coat it. The type of recruiting we're talking about is going to be a challenge for the current system. The recruiting system has just undergone a major renovation, if you will, and meeting those targ

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's an excellent question. In fact, we do have two strategies under way right now for the Canadian Armed Forces. One is for retention and one is for recruiting. To be quite clear, these are strategies that are aimed at both the regular force and the r

Public Accounts committee  I'll speed it up. That strategy has four phases and we're moving on them. From the recruiting perspective, we're looking at developing a model for the reserves that is more representative of what we currently use for the regular force. We have a very good structure to map out a

Public Accounts committee  Okay, fair enough. It's a very valid question. The current system is cumbersome and it really is not sufficient to our needs, as the Auditor General pointed out, and we certainly agree with that. We need a modern HR tool and, as I mentioned earlier, that is being shepherded by t

Public Accounts committee  It's digitizing our ability to pull in readiness information for all the members.

Public Accounts committee  It's a major project, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  I'm not in a position to answer that question, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. On the specific question regarding 5.70, Mr. Chair, I want to point out the fact that this is not necessarily a review that we are talking about. It is a major upgrade to our human resource software. The project is called military personne

Public Accounts committee  We currently have approximately 66,000 regular force members in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Public Accounts committee  Regular.

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.