National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Right.

National Defence committee  There is a difference between procuring two new ships that are built for purpose and procuring a refitted commercial vessel. It's not—

National Defence committee  It is useful, but it's not a warship, and what we've determined we need is a warship, built for purpose.

National Defence committee  I'll start and then I'll ask our ADM of Infrastructure, Elizabeth Van Allen, to respond. It is no surprise with the footprint that the Department of National Defence has that we are one of the larger emitters of greenhouse gas. We are taking a very aggressive approach to reduce

National Defence committee  I'm very happy to speak about that program. IDEaS is one of the initiatives out of SSE that we are the most proud of. We are taking the way we solve problems and, in some cases, how we do procurement and work with the academic environment and businesses to change it completely.

National Defence committee  The government and the Department of Defence, Canadian Armed Forces, are fully committed to building a defence team that reflects all Canadians and is open and inclusive. In our defence policy, we announced a number of initiatives to fully leverage diversity. We're looking at enh

National Defence committee  It's good news. We don't really talk about that good news very often.

National Defence committee  Of the other 90%, 25% of it was set aside for intellectual property. That money wasn't required because we didn't have to spend it to buy intellectual property in that year. It's still there and available. We may never need it, but we always have it fenced and available. Some of

National Defence committee  I'm going to ask the CFO and the ADM Materiel to answer so I don't take up time.

National Defence committee  The defence budget is, of course, a subject of great interest and discussion. I'm going to ask both the CFO and the ADM, Mat to weigh in on this, so we are going to take a bit of time on this question.

National Defence committee  “Strong, Secure, Engaged” did lay out a spending plan. When we dove into each project, we realized that some of the spending plans may not be completely aligned with “Strong, Secure, Engaged”. What we are trying to do is preserve space and funding for the projects going forward.

National Defence committee  I'll begin, and then I'll ask Admiral Hawco to continue. The Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces, and Veterans Affairs Canada are working very closely together to ensure that from enrolment to post-retirement—because of injury or illness or at the end of a

National Defence committee  I can answer that. We're pleased to get you the numbers of what has been spent to date. We have with us today the expected expenditures for this fiscal year on the two projects, but we can take that on notice.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Garrison, for the question. I appreciate your concern for the civilian employees of the department. I don't have an estimate for when problems will be resolved. Within our department, we have tripled our number of compensation staff from 50 to