Mr. Speaker, my question is for the critic for defence.
We just heard a speech by our Minister of National Defence previous to the hon. member's speech. In that speech, he waxed eloquently about the word war. He talked about not wanting to use the word war. He said that it conjures up fear and that individuals do not want to talk about something that they do not understand. He then went on to talk about the way this war would be waged.
We have heard about the war against poverty, the war against drugs and the war against all the other things that are being tagged as being a war. However he made it very clear that conventional warfare was not the main thing.
In the paper today, General MacKenzie says that we are ill-equipped for war.
I would like to ask the defence critic how our military has gone as far as funding and levels over the past 10 years?