Mr. Speaker, unlike the Liberals who oversaw and neglected our armed forces through the decade of darkness, and the NDP who would prefer to never purchase any military equipment, we support our military and give it the equipment it actually needs.
Under the previous Liberal government, our soldiers and Disaster Assistance Response Team would have to rely on other countries for strategic airlift or use SALIS Antonovs to get around the world. When we were first elected, we fixed this very embarrassing situation by purchasing four new C-17 Globemaster strategic airlift planes, 17 new C-130J Hercules tactical airlift planes, and 15 new Chinook heavy-lift helicopters.