Mr. Speaker, speaking of a war of words, in 1993 during the campaign the prime minister said “Zero helicopters, period. Zero helicopters”.
Now in 1998 he says “Okay, 15 helicopters. Actually they will be the same kind of helicopters and actually they will cost $200 million more than we thought they would”. What a steal of a deal; a Liberal would think that is good bargaining.
I dare the prime minister to stand in his place to defend the decision to get helicopters now after originally cancelling them based purely on politics and politics alone.