Despite everything, I understand that the promise has still not been honoured. Whether it will be remains to be seen.
I would like to come back to the comments made by the chair of the committee about my math. The minister mentioned that I had not taken into account the modernization of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defence Command, in my question. However, this modernization of NORAD was announced in March 2023, before the budget cuts were announced.
In August, when the President of the Treasury Board, Anita Anand, asked ministers to reduce their spending, which led the Department of National Defence to announce budget cuts of around $900 million a year in September, I imagine that work was already under way on updating the defence policy. So, in August, before the department announced budget cuts of $900 million, did we already know that we were going to take money out of one pocket and put it into another through the defence policy for the next two years?