Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Fuhr. Mr. Finn, I just want to go back to a comment you made that you were going to start a new centre of excellence here in Ottawa.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Ms. Alleslev. We will now go back to Mr. Fuhr.

Public Accounts committee  I wanted to talk briefly about the procurement cycle that we're in right now and the time limit that we touched on earlier. When I got to the air division in 2003, the highest priority acquisition for the military at the time was the replacement for the Buffalo. That was in 2003

Public Accounts committee  I totally appreciate that and I appreciate that there will be time, but what we have now is a technology cycle that's shrinking and a procurement cycle that's growing, and that's a really bad place to be. To put things in perspective, these security concerns and 100% offset and 2

Public Accounts committee  Actually, I want to follow up with some of the answers I heard to Mr. Fuhr's question. I believe, Mr. Finn, it was you who said the assembly timeline is expected to be three years. If I remember correctly, your answer to my question in the earlier round was that you expect

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, if I have any time left, I will yield it to Mr. Fuhr.

Public Accounts committee  We'll have time to come back to Mr. Fuhr. We're going to Ms. Alleslev.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Ms. Alleslev. We'll now to go Mr. Fuhr. It will be the last question of the meeting today.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. First of all I want to thank the Auditor General's office for putting some heat and light on this issue. Many of us knew that this was coming and it was here. It speaks specifically to a capability gap, yet adds in the other elements that are required to generate comb

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Fuhr. Now Mr. Christopherson has come back and has asked for a very short summary or a very short question. You have it, sir.

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to split my time with Mr. Fuhr. The first question is with respect to the training program. You mentioned, Mr. Buss, the government programs and matching spending on eligible purchases. Currently, what organization is actually matching

Transport committee  Absolutely. My second question, before I go to Mr. Fuhr, is on the current pilots. Have the association or the bodies that you work with given any incentive to existing pilots to do training? That's question number one. Question number two is, with reference to that, does

Transport committee  Great. Thank you. Mr. Fuhr can continue.

Transport committee  Thank you very much. I want to quickly talk a little bit more about the airport capital assistance program, because it is part of the infrastructure. I remember Trail came to see the Pacific caucus in Kelowna. They ended up getting a pretty nice-sized grant from the federal gov

Transport committee  Does that include airports across the country? Is there a different need in the north? I know that doing anything in the north takes longer and costs more. Does that include northern communities as well, or is that across the lower 49th?