You don't need a doctorate in history to notice that history repeats itself.
In the 1990s and 2000s, a newly elected government abolished the program that had been designed to upgrade 30-year-old helicopters. A few decades later, in 2015, another newly elected government did exactly the same thing by cancelling a signed contract, and then returning seven years later to the same decision.
I'd like to draw your attention—and I'm speaking more to the people who are watching our proceedings, because I don't want to throw a can of political paint at you—that two Liberal governments did this. The governments of Mr. Chrétien and Mr. Trudeau abolished one program and proposed another, which ended up costing much more seven years later.
Earlier, you answered my colleague's question by saying that there was a lot of concern about the politicization of debates like this. We see that history is repeating itself. Can you explain how a government of the same stripe made the same mistake 30 years later?