Mr. Speaker, there are very strict guidelines for the use of the executive fleet. We changed the regulations after some discussions and quite frankly after some criticism by the auditor general a couple of years ago.
We have reduced the fleet from six to four planes. We are very assiduous in determining when ministers make bona fide requests that there are no commercial arrangements that could get them where they are going.
The point made by the Prime Minister about the 40 per cent reduction is something that can be examined at committee when the estimates of the Department of National Defence come forward.