I appreciate the member's intervention. He will note undoubtedly this debate is prompted by the opposition, not by the government where it should have originated.
The Lagueux report, while confined to a relatively narrow area within the defence department, revealed that there are very great discrepancies in the command and control over there. It revealed there was harassment, there was misappropriation or questionable use of funds, that projects were hidden or appeared to be unrelated. Yet the government has not seen any requirement to intervene, to have a look at what is going on in the defence department and ascertain what can be done to correct it.
To conclude, without question we have to commend the government on doing some good things. It inherited many problems. There is no doubt in my mind-and I question the minister when he continually says he trusts his leadership, he trusts everything that is going on-there are obvious errors and problems within the Department of National Defence.
We believe an inquiry must be called to examine and hopefully recommend solutions.