John McCallum at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On June 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.

June 14th, 2011 / 4:05 p.m.

Liberal

John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you to the witnesses for being here.

I would just like to say at the beginning that as a former defence minister, I am of course a huge fan of the men and women of the Canadian Forces.

My questions today are largely financial in nature.

First, it's my understanding that the lapse in the defence budget was over $1 billion in 2009-10 and over $2 billion in 2010-11. I would like to ask the minister if I am correct in those numbers, broadly speaking.

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