Public Accounts committee  There are a number of oversight committees and working groups, and it's busy, heavy-lifting work to look at this from deputy minister and chief of the defence staff levels through the system. Major-General Cadieu sits on one of those committees, and he is very actively involved w

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, I'm pleased to answer. I am very confident that the Canadian Armed Forces would be able to participate, lead or be a part of any vaccine distribution should we be asked to do so. We have been working with the Public Health Agency, PSPC, Health Canada and other gov

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I am always pushing for things to be done more quickly. It is frustrating in this department how long activities and responses, remedies, solutions to issues raised by the Auditor General or our own internal audit, and our own internal process review

Public Accounts committee  I'll invite my two colleagues to comment, but there's a range of problems: old systems, processes we have not updated, no performance measurements, and old processes in stockrooms and storerooms, where we're not always sure what's in the facility. The complexity of ensuring ever

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm happy to begin that answer, and then I'll turn to General Cadieu because he is a member of the ADM working group that is looking at vaccine distribution. The Canadian Armed Forces will potentially be part of that solution. There are multiple vaccines

Public Accounts committee  The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces have been working—

Public Accounts committee  They did. I'll ask Major General Cadieu to respond, as he was critical in leading Op Laser.

Public Accounts committee  I'm going to turn to assistant deputy minister of materiel, Troy Crosby, to answer that because that's more on the materiel management side of things. The metrics in question are under development now. In 2017, we launched a 10-year program to repair, improve and modernize the

Public Accounts committee  I'll go back to my colleagues, and ask them to expand on this, because they are leading the effort. We're talking about 500,000 orders per year, 460 million items. There is complexity in the amount of materiel we're talking about. There is complexity in the number of locations f

Public Accounts committee  COVID has impacted many aspects of the work in the Department of National Defence, just as it has with every other aspect of business and life in Canada. Some of the work on this project has been slowed. However, while we sent employees home to stop the spread, we have kept peopl

Public Accounts committee  Our belief is that of course it is critical that equipment get to those who are deployed at all times to ensure that they are never at risk during the deployment, and that's everything from spare parts to food to uniforms to their mail. It is an essential part of overseas operati

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, thank you. Good morning. Thank you for inviting us to discuss the findings of the Auditor General's Report, “Supplying the Canadian Armed Forces”. I would like to thank the Auditor General for looking into the issue and for her three recommendations. As she noted,

Public Accounts committee  It's a complex subject, there's absolutely no doubt. As I've said, the portfolio of our infrastructure is worth about $26 billion. Certainly, we don't have the kind of money we need to maintain to the standard that we should a portfolio that large. We will continue to try to focu

Public Accounts committee  I guess my short answer is that yes, assets are growing. The cost to maintain them is increasing. I wouldn't want to speak to whether it's too easy to designate a property or not. That is being studied. But Treasury Board is leading a horizontal review of infrastructure for just

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure you want Defence to answer that.