Mr. Speaker, last week the Prime Minister spoke of the major job of making cuts and reorganizing the Armed Forces, which his Minister of Defence and chief of defence staff had ahead of them.
My question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. I cannot ask it of the Minister of Defence, for he is protecting himself now. Will the Prime Minister admit that such cutbacks and reorganization require total credibility and that, under the present circumstances, neither the Minister of Defence nor General Boyle inspire sufficient confidence among military personnel to acquit themselves of this important task? Could the Deputy Minister respond?