Mr. Chairman, as part of the pre-budget process, the Finance Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the government. I believe we have a right to know what kind of manoeuvre margin we have. That said, I know my colleague Claude Bachand is doing the same sort of thing at the Defence Committee, but here we are addressing Department of National Defence. He might have more details that would not necessarily be useful to us here. What we would like to know is what margin of manoeuvre we will have once we know the total, and what percentage it amounts to.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.