Mr. Speaker, I have no problem saying that when we were facing a deficit of $42 billion we could not afford one helicopter and we did not buy one.
After that there was a white paper, endorsed by everyone, which said that some day we would have to buy helicopters. We have bought 15 helicopters for search and rescue at 40% less. We are spending less than $800 million at this time, and the Tories wanted to pay at that time $5.8 billion for helicopters.