Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow up on some of the comments earlier about funding to Operation Reassurance and the funding for Ukraine. I'm just looking at the fall fiscal update. It shows a decline in military assistance to Ukraine: this fiscal year, $816 million dollars; next year, $318 million; the year after that, $197 million. The dollars are declining, and that's where I was talking from. It's either not being there to support Ukraine or just running out of cash and running out of equipment to donate.
It's the same on Operation Reassurance. Money ramps up, up to 2025, and then drops right down, with adjustments in 2027-28 cutting it by half a billion dollars, with a total cut of $141 million over the next five years. That's coming right out of the government's own numbers.
I want to talk about equipment. We know the state of repairs on our existing Leopard 2 tanks that are sitting in Canada, the ones we haven't deployed to Latvia and the ones we have already donated. The ones that are sitting here in Canada are sitting in storage and are barely usable to train on at this point in time. We know that of the howitzers that we have left—we donated a dozen or so to Ukraine—only about four or five are operational. How do we maintain training of our forces when we can't keep our equipment in maintenance and overhaul so it is usable?