Mr. Speaker, the government says that its decision to transfer training activities from the College in Saint-Jean to Kingston was motivated by the need to save money. Unfortunately, we cannot get any credible figures. Yesterday, the Prime Minister said in the House: "I do not need to spend more money to see or to have experts tell me that we do not need three military colleges for 65,000 members" of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Considering that it will cost $6 million to maintain an empty building in Saint-Jean, that it will cost a lot more to train students in Kingston instead of in Saint-Jean and that the Prime Minister's project may end up costing a lot of money, is the Prime Minister not afraid that all these expenses will considerably reduce the amounts saved by concentrating officer training at the college in Kingston?