National Defence committee  No. The answer is no, there's no line in these supplementary estimates that I could point to in answer to that question, Mr. Chairman.

National Defence committee  Let me just say a couple of things. First of all, we won't answer questions based on rumour, obviously. I don't think, Mr. Chair, that members would expect us to do so. I don't know that the vice-chief would want to take a question, particularly a question on St. Jean. On the issue of jobs and bases, I think it's well understood by everybody that as we go through a period of fiscal restraint to deliver on the government's commitment to reduce its budget deficit by, I guess, it's now 2015-16, all departments have, through the course of the strategic review over the last few years, and now through the course of the deficit reduction action plan, been working—

National Defence committee  Okay. Regarding the MSOCs, I'll let my colleague speak to that soon. I just want to make sure that the record is clear. I think Dan Ross clarified that the basic flyaway price in the year the F-35s are purchased will be the same for everybody purchasing in that year. The probability that everybody else's internal domestic pricing and needs would be exactly the same is probably close to zero.

National Defence committee  All I would say—and Dan Ross might want to say a word about this too—is that we don't know exactly what the Norwegians purchased. There are base aircraft, and then a series of options and spares, and a lot of other things, for that aircraft. So I don't think it would be appropriate for us to be speculating on exactly what the Norwegians have purchased, as opposed to what we know that we have purchased.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the questions, Mr. Chairman. We did not come prepared to talk to a number of those issues. There are good responses to each of them. I would say they are outside the context for which we came. I would turn to the CFO for one second to talk about how we establish and manage a $20 billion a year organization, which has about a $5 billion capital vote in it, within which we accommodate this.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you for the question. Actually, this is related to severe trauma injuries on the combat field. Let me ask the vice-chief, who oversees the chief military personnel and is the source of this transfer, to respond.

National Defence committee  We fund external research when there is a requirement to build capacity or build an understanding that we don't have. Either the knowledge is not available or the research is not being done by others. We will actually go out and fund external research, yes. Go ahead, Bruce.

Government Operations committee  I have an associate deputy minister as well, Matthew King, but I am deputy to both ministers.

Government Operations committee  Yes, sir. I am deputy minister to both.

Government Operations committee  If I could just make one quick point, the bet that's made when we finally go to Parliament for appropriating money is a bet that's supported by the Department of Finance and by Treasury Board, which actually believe that basically we have it right. As you can imagine and as I think you would know from your time, those are pretty rigorous challenge functions.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, we are allowed to carry 2.5% forward. Other departments are allowed to carry 5% forward.

Government Operations committee  We are allowed 2.5%.

Public Accounts committee  The chief of air staff will actually talk to what's on the Chinooks in theatre.

Public Accounts committee  Well, I kind of like Golden Delicious myself, Mr. Chairman. There were probably three questions in there. As for my frustration, as the report says, this is an extremely complex set of processes, costing billions of dollars, that take place over many years. If I had asked you to tell me, in 2000, what kinds of cellphone requirements you would have, you probably would have bought a big cellphone that would have cost you a whole lot of money.

Public Accounts committee  The consequence, briefly, Mr. Chairman, is that we'll get better at doing it. I think I have--