Mr. Speaker, in 1996 this Liberal defence minister announced a $500 million emergency campaign to clothe our soldiers.
Yet recently an advertisement appeared in the Plainsman newspaper requesting forces personnel to return all combat shirts and pants which are not being used to the clothing stores so that they could be redistributed to the second rotation of soldiers going to Bosnia.
Will the Minister of National Defence explain to the men and women in our forces why $500 million cannot even buy them proper pants? Why is the government turning the Canadian army into the Salvation Army?