Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister will recall that in our budgets we at least allotted $2 billion more for the military and it would have those helicopters now if we were sitting over on that side. This government has been playing partisan politics with the search and rescue helicopters for so long now that civilian organizations have to go and do the job.
We salute the initiative taken by the Winnipeg Sun and the brave pilot who flew that mission, but Canadians should be able to count on their military. I ask the Prime Minister when he will stop playing games with public safety and give our military the equipment it needs to do the job.