Mr. Speaker, military experts say that Canada's Sea Kings in Afghanistan have lost the safety features which protected them in the gulf war.
I have three precise questions for the Minister of National Defence. Do the Sea Kings in Afghanistan have systems to detect enemy radar? Do they have systems to detect enemy laser scanning? Can they dispense interference to decoy incoming missiles?
If not, how does the minister justify sending into battle Sea Kings that are less safe now than they were 10 years ago?