Mr. Speaker, we do not fly dangerous helicopters. There is no doubt that these helicopters are getting toward the end of their lives. There is no doubt that they need to be replaced and will be replaced soon.
If the Conservatives had not botched this up previously, there might have been a helicopter long before this. We are going to get good value for the Canadian taxpayer. We are going to buy helicopters that are off the shelf type and not the developing kind of helicopter, a proposition that would have cost us a lot more money.
Even with the penalty that had to be paid to cancel the previous sad deal, we still will be saving taxpayers' money.