Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of National Defence.
The minister has tried several times to attribute poor morale in the armed forces to recent cutbacks and the negative attitude of the media. However, according to an internal report on military morale prepared by Colonel Oehring, the main cause is, and I quote: "An increasingly impotent military leadership and uncaring system".
How can the Minister of National Defence maintain, as he did last week, that the morale of the military is at a low ebb because of budget cuts and the attitude of the media and the opposition, when an internal report by the armed forces, submitted by Colonel Oehring, maintains that the leadership is to blame?