National Defence committee  There's money in the budget for full-time summer employment for reservists. Certainly, diversity would be an aspect of the recruiting into the reserves broadly. The other programs that we discussed are still very much at the conceptual stage.

National Defence committee  Absolutely. We are completely transparent about what's not getting spent. In every project, or in the scope of a $6-billion budget with 333 projects, there are going to be some slowdowns by industry. There are going to be some slowdowns by us. If money isn't moving quite quickly

National Defence committee  I'll certainly ask Pat to get into it, but the point that needs to be made first and foremost is that we own the material. We have contracts where, if there's a default on any contract, we have methodology for obtaining our material. I'll ask Pat to get into detail with you.

National Defence committee  I'll start, and the vice chief of the defence staff can certainly jump in. All missions for the Canadian Armed Forces are an extension of foreign policy, and so, of course, we work with Global Affairs Canada to determine where the Canadian Armed Forces can be an extension of for

National Defence committee  What's interesting about the UN structural reforms is that they actually align very nicely with other Department of National Defence structure. As the deputy minister, I run the bureaucracy and the infrastructure and the support to the Canadian Armed Forces, and the chief of the

National Defence committee  I believe it is.

National Defence committee  The carry-forward for vote 5 funding this year is in fact at $1.3 billion. We've had $700 million, more or less, in efficiencies, so we didn't need that money. The money that wasn't requested that we could have spent is $1.3 billion. Of that, $700 million is attributable to the D

National Defence committee  The funding in the supplementary estimates is for Operation Artemis. You may note that we often ask for all of the funding for operations at the end of the year, and then we have a proper accounting of how much money we've spent. As we look forward to next year, as we table the

Public Accounts committee  If I could just have one final word on the external advisory committee, thank you. Part of the reason it didn't meet frequently and only had its first meeting as noted in June 2018 was my fault. The members who were originally nominated, I didn't think answered the question. We

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your kind remarks. There are problems reporting, depending on where you are. Dr. Preston is working on that with the environmental chiefs as we speak. If you're on a ship, making a report to the centre can be difficult if you don't have connectivity and if you're

Public Accounts committee  I think that it was due to a lack of understanding of what was required of the team looking at this issue. I think the information was incomplete, and so there was a desire not to draw the wrong conclusions, but instead it left a gap.

Public Accounts committee  We certainly have you to report to on how we are doing with our data collection and our management action plan. We have a data problem in Defence. We've been in front of this committee before—

Public Accounts committee  —and we have taken this very seriously. I have invested in a data analytics group that is going to oversee, develop and direct how we manage data in the Department of National Defence. It will be done consistently. It will be done across every senior, major branch. Dr. Preston is

Public Accounts committee  I'll ask General Wynnyk to jump in as well. We do have the data. We can provide it to you. Certainly, when Madame Deschamps did her report, she was very clear that the disparity between rank and authority and power was one core problem within the organization. Senior leaders wit

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I absolutely agree. We had a lot of numbers, but they didn't give a lot of information. It wasn't data, and it wasn't information; it was just numbers. The ability to delve into the numbers, the number of incidents in this space over the course of the year, was not then bein