Mr. Speaker, this was not a decision that was made at the last minute. It was a decision that was part of the original proposal for the defence cuts. It is one that I opposed, the Prime Minister opposed and many people opposed. We would have liked to have done it another way rather than close this college. However, from the point of view of financial sense in meeting our red book commitments, it seemed to us that the best business case was to to concentrate the college in Kingston.
We tried to avoid this but in the final analysis we felt that it was the only wise decision to make in saving the taxpayers money, not just the taxpayers of other provinces but the taxpayers of Quebec as well.