National Defence committee  I'll just say that you're exactly right, Deputy Minister, in that our focus has been on what we can do, which tends to be in infrastructure. For example, these estimates are requesting access to funding to help us modernize one of our largest research laboratories, at Valcartie

National Defence committee  What you've described, Deputy Minister, as the core part of what we fund—about $157 million of the estimates—is meant to go towards common funding. There's another $62 million that goes to what is called NATO security investment, which includes the communications and IAM infrastr

National Defence committee  Thank you for that question. In total so far, we have really two tranches. One is donation of both surplus materiel that we had and materiel we were using “in service”, as we call it. That amounts to almost 50 million dollars' worth of donations. Secondly, in terms of purchasi

National Defence committee  The Prime Minister announced $500 million in budget 2022. Prior to that, there was an announcement for $75 million. The $75 million is fully spent at this point. Of the $500 million, we've spent about $140 million, so we still have a little ways to go.

National Defence committee  You're absolutely right. Every year, every department usually has an amount of money that is lapsed. Last year we did technically lapse $1.2 billion. However, we are not leaving that money on the table. It does not go into the consolidated revenue fund. We are actually able to re

National Defence committee  I don't have the exact figure handy now for last year, but we reprofiled primarily to this year. There were some delays experienced with COVID. Travel was reduced. We reduced the number of exercises we were doing, and so forth, so our operating budget was able to be carried forwa