Mr. Speaker, we have learned that Canadian taxpayers contributed over $300,000 for advertising in a special edition of Homemakers magazine.
Ruth Cardinal, public affairs director for the Department of National Defence, defended DND's participation because it will encourage recruiting in the Canadian forces, this even though the average age of readers of Homemakers is 42 and the forces are downsizing.
How can the minister possibly justify such Cadillac advertising when the defence department budget has been slashed and thousands of military and civilian jobs are disappearing?