Mr. Speaker, no one out there should think anything other than that we had to cut spending to reduce our annual deficit. We have cut spending so much now that Canada's program spending is the lowest it has been in my lifetime. I will now have to say how old I am. This goes back to the year 1948-49. The percentage of GDP program spending is the lowest it has been in 52 years.
No terrorist incidents occurred in Canada as a result of anything Canada did or did not do or as a result of cutbacks to our policing and intelligence gathering. However now we need to reinvest along with our allies for the global purpose and we are doing it to the tune of many billions of dollars.