Government Operations committee  I apologize. Indeed, we have a plan to reach the target. It will take some time. The same is true for the other yard. I imagine we will have to go through a similar process for the third yard. There is no exact deadline for achieving the target condition. However, Vancouver does

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not sure whether the question is for me or the minister.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I saw that amount in the media. Since the planning is still being verified, I can't give you that amount right now.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, we are in the process of evaluating options because we have to fix things and renew them. We are in the process of developing a plan.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. At the peak, we were seeing about 30% of contracts having advance payments. That has obviously dropped off significantly as the market has settled, so contracts now are rarely seeing advance payments. When we were at the peak of the shortage of sup

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, absolutely, we can provide that information. We could do a broader look, but I would suggest that it was really during the first six months of the pandemic when advance payments were really an issue, and that was changing rapidly. It might be more relevant for the me

Government Operations committee  No, because we did not know who Mr. Octeau was. We only found out after the contract had been awarded.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. At that time, we realized that the usual suppliers could not provide the goods in the required time. So we had to find other companies to help us. At that time, again, there were many new companies popping up. Our traditional supply chains weren't wo

Government Operations committee  The context is that roughly 57% to 59% were met. There is about 32% or 33%—

Government Operations committee  I was going to finish my answer—

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the contracts in question were for design. Deployment is another part. SNC was on contract to deliver up to five, so they designed—

Government Operations committee  None have been deployed yet because they have not yet been requested by the provinces.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, this is something where we had to forecast into the future to determine the needs—

Government Operations committee  PSPC first identified the need and worked—

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Chair. There are a couple of things. Number one is that incredibly valuable work was done by the Auditor General. We take the findings very seriously. I think there's acknowledgement that the department had to take risks. The supply situation was well