Mr. Speaker, the first words out of the minister's mouth should have been an apology to our troops.
Despite the contrary analysis of nearly every expert in the field, the defence minister likes to persist in his fiction that our forces are better equipped today than they were 10 years ago.
Ten years ago, our Sea Kings had a host of anti-missile systems in the Persian Gulf. Today they are being sent to war, stripped back to only one of those defences.
Let us end this charade now. Are our Sea King helicopters better equipped--