Mr. Speaker, in another memo obtained under the Access to Information Act, Brigadier General Stephenson, director general of land forces development, questions whether there will be any savings by closing the base. Colonel Daigle of land forces command says that the cost of moving the engineering school for example will negate the savings achieved by closing CFB Chilliwack.
If land forces command argued it needed the base open for military reasons and the experts said that closing the base was not going to save any money, did the minister close the base because of mismanagement or did he merely choose to move it to Edmonton because his Liberal seatmates live there?