National Defence committee  They have not been repurposed, to my knowledge.

National Defence committee  I think we'll ask the chief of the CSE to respond.

National Defence committee  I believe it's covered somewhere else, but we have the ADM of infrastructure here to respond to your questions.

National Defence committee  We're very pleased this ship was ordered for the Royal Canadian Navy. As you know—

National Defence committee  It does, and it is very good news. ADM Pat Finn will get into the details for you, but as you know, as we're building ships, the costs decline as we go down the line of ships. Market variables play a role; the cost of steel is a prime example. That cost is an estimate at this tim

National Defence committee  We welcome the reforms at the UN. The chief of the defence staff and I went to visit the UN in the spring, and I had quite a significant discussion about the reforms. It is interesting that they are aligning operations and policy, the two separate entities of the peace support op

National Defence committee  I actually think they are more reflecting our structure here.

National Defence committee  Any time we speak to the UN, we are hand in glove with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Global Affairs Canada. We do nothing without the Foreign Affairs direction, the armed forces policy team and, of course, the foreign policy experts from Global Affairs. We commit and speak

National Defence committee  Of course, in the Department of National Defence, we work with Foreign Affairs on the foreign policy direction they would like the Canadian Armed Forces to take. It goes without saying that we are very concerned about the situation in the Middle East, with Syria and Yemen of prof

National Defence committee  I'd be very pleased to ask the commander of military personnel, General Lamarre, to speak to the suicide prevention strategy. I'll preface it by saying it is joint with Veterans Affairs Canada. It is a ground-breaking document whereby we combine operational response, policy and

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'm happy to answer, and if the VCDS would like to weight in, I would certainly welcome that.

National Defence committee  I'm happy to answer those questions. The $677 million was what we carried forward last year in vote 1. That allows us to open the year. You can't carry forward zero. There is an expectation that we will have funds to open the books on day one, April 1. Last year, we did not s

National Defence committee  Thank you. We are transferring to NATO this year $2.2 million for the 2017-18 security investment program; $1.5 million for the NATO command structure, their entities and programs; and then the increasing support for ongoing programs is $20.5 million that is being transferred to

National Defence committee  I support everything the minister has said. Thank you for the question. Essentially, 100% of my HR team's time is spent working on Phoenix. We have 59,000 outstanding cases. Unfortunately, with some of the more complex ones that go back two years, we have done as much as we ca

National Defence committee  I'm happy to answer that. “Strong, Secure, Engaged” is very clear that we would use the interim IAOR, the Asterix, and procure two joint supply ships through Vancouver Shipyards, and that's what's in the plan. At this point we have determined that the one interim vessel is fulfi