Madam Speaker, I thank the minister for his comments. I enjoyed listening to his statement.
I noticed he used terms like maintaining the sharp end of defence and that our military in the future would be a lean, effective military. I notice when I review the red ink book that there seems to be no mention, although they took the hard decision following the election to eliminate the contract for the EH-101 helicopters, of the cancellation costs for those contracts. There seems to be no mention in the red ink book about replacement costs. It is obvious if we are going to have a lean but effective military that those helicopters will have to be replaced. Yet there seems to be no costs for those things built into this budget statement.
I would ask the hon. minister where those cost estimates are and why they are not part of the projected costs for the government.