I mentioned in my opening remarks the issue of being multipartisan. Something as important as national defence needs to be developed in a multipartisan way. The only way you can do that is if you open the kimono, you bring everybody in, you share the classified and unclassified information in a multipartisan committee that can actually then come to agreement on what the right capabilities and direction of defence are for a nation. When you do that, you don't get the starts and stops. You don't get the “we like this particular airplane, or this particular helicopter, or we don't”. It doesn't become a political issue at the next election if it's been done in a multipartisan way. If we don't do that, we're never going to get down the path of comprehensive policy.
On February 27th, 2018. See this statement in context.