Madam Gallant, before the chief can answer that question in detail, you can't just make a statement all of sudden so that everybody thinks it's real. You have to look at the cuts that were also done in the past. I've been very non-partisan about this in terms of successive governments, but these are the cuts that we're having to deal with. This defence policy is dealing with a hollowed-out force now. We didn't have the number of people to be able to deal with this. Before making false statements like this, look at what we're trying to achieve. This money is going to fill the hole of the deficit reduction action plan, the review that was done that cut $2 billion from the budget. That's one of the reasons we're having to invest now: to fill this hole, and to be able to deal now with the type of investment we're going to be making into the future.
On June 20th, 2017. See this statement in context.