One of the virtues of working under the Auditor General Act, which I now miss, is that you're entitled to see every record and interview any person. The short answer is that I didn't have great difficulty, although sometimes there was a bit of a cat-and-mouse game going on between my people and defence officials. Generally, we could get the information we required. It's a lot more than you can get as a citizen or a member of Parliament.
I think the Senate asked for a time-phased expenditure for major capital projects, and DND just didn't give it to them. I think there is a major issue in terms of provision of information to Parliament, but as the Office of the Auditor General, we could get whatever we wanted.