Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. I certainly applaud the government's moving in the right direction with regard to the money for our military.
Governments are elected usually from four to five years and they cannot do everything in one budget. It is a major step toward improving the quality of life for armed services personnel. It is clearly $525 million better than we had before this budget. It clearly addresses many of the issues that the standing committee reported on. The Minister of National Defence has done an excellent job in listening to those concerns, providing those concerns to the Minister of Finance and clearly we are on the right road.