Madam Speaker, I am not sure I will get all 20 questions answered, but I will make an attempt.
We are saying that national defence must have better equipment. However before it gets better equipment, we have to target what we are going to do. We have to establish the criteria and then we have to do it.
He talks about the report that was presented. I was on the foreign affairs part of the committee and there was communication between the two committees. The point is that the recommendations were to cut from the top. That has not been done.
If cuts are made at the top that money will be available for the bottom. Cuts should not be across the board but certain things should be targeted. Some things are gone 100 per cent, other things will increase. The sort of slash and burn tactic that the member has in mind is totally not what Reform members have in mind because we will target. We will set our criteria and then we will have something that is efficient. We will apply the same efficiencies that business applies, which government has totally ignored for all these years.
It is a matter of going after the top. Government does not seem to be able to do that. It is too easy to cut from the bottom up.
As for the EH-101s, that should have been looked at very carefully. I am sure the government did, but did it know of the potential costs of the cancellation? Did it really look at all of that?
From what experts say the EH-101 probably was not the helicopter that was needed. What the minister is proposing is probably a good idea, but he has to have his act together. How much does it cost? How many are being bought? How many are needed? That is what has to happen.