James Bezan at the National Defence Committee

On February 2nd, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 2nd, 2017 / 5:05 p.m.

Conservative

James Bezan Conservative Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, MB

I have one quick question, and then I want to give the rest of my time to Mr. Clarke.

You're saying there's that gap of 18 months from the time that we wrap up AOPS and hopefully are into the new surface combatants. That time lag wasn't there originally. What's the reasoning? Is it because of the change in the way we're tendering for the design for the surface combatants?

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