Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister very much but he did not answer the question. This $216 million to Bombardier is for the CF-18 maintenance contract.
On October 31, 1986 Brian Mulroney gave this very same contract to Bombardier even though Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg had the best bid. In opposition these very same Liberals cried blue murder over that contract. Now that they are in power, the Liberals have done exactly what the Tories did.
How can the Liberals justify giving this lucrative $216 million contract to Bombardier without tender? Even the Tories tendered the contract before they rigged it.