Mr. Speaker, first of all let us make the Challenger jets for sale. Second, let us all use commercial airlines.
Since 1985 the government has spent $11 million training 689 technicians to service the Challengers. At the same time national defence has contracted out $12 million of maintenance to another firm. When Mr. Cormier added up all the costs of the Challenger program he confirmed the Auditor General's asser-
tion that the Challengers are almost three times more expensive than the Prime Minister cares to admit.
When will the Prime Minister stop fooling the Canadian people about the real costs of the Challenger jets? When will he accept the Auditor General's suggestion to drastically reduce the Challenger jet fleet?