Mr. Speaker, the hon. member will be pleased because I have a fairly good answer for her. As I mentioned before, not everything we spend shows up in the budget. The budget speech is intended to show new spending initiatives.
The hon. member makes reference to $300 million or whatever it was. The base funding for Canada's military in the current fiscal year is $11 billion.
There have been other amounts added to that. Over the next four years the annual additions for capital funding for boots and other equipment purchases that are being made separately from the base funding will total $7.6 billion.
The hon. member may like to focus on $300 million but the budget has an additional $1.2 billion. All we have to do is add the other $900 million to the $300 million for this year.
Over the next five years, Mr. Speaker--please read my lips and listen to the numbers--it is $7.6 billion for Canada's military. Our men and women overseas will not go without, whether they are in aircraft, on ships or on the ground.