Mr. Chair, may I please ask the minister a question?
He said it was not possible to provide an estimate of the costs of the air strikes in Iraq. But we carried out similar flights in Libya. I would like to know why the costs of the Libyan air strikes can't be extrapolated to produce a cost estimate for the flights in Iraq. The planes and bombs are the same, are they not? I would like the minister to provide that information.
When I am in my riding, my constituents ask me how it is that the U.S. army is able to produce a cost estimate, for instance, $7 million per day, but the Canadian army cannot. How is it that Canada's army is unable to provide that cost estimate? Is the financial branch of Canada's army inferior to its U.S. counterpart?