Mr. Speaker, it is not unusual but the hon. member has taken the words I used on that television program entirely out of context. What I stated was that the mandate of the Canadian Armed Forces is to deliver its services in the fastest, most efficient way possible.
We have to do that sometimes without having regard to the expenditures of national defence being equitable in every single region. Part of that problem harks back to the second world war when a disproportionate amount of Canadian forces infrastructure and spending was in the Atlantic provinces because it was a staging area for war. This has tended to disfavour certain regions.
In spite of that, I would like to point out to the hon. member that in the 1994-95 fiscal year 20 per cent of military spending and 27 per cent of the capital expenditures were made in the province of Quebec.