Madam Chairman, it was in the 1990s. Department officials will probably indicate it was an earlier time because they will tie it to the earlier project. However, the earlier project was one that was unsuitable for current day needs so we cancelled that project. We will now get a helicopter that is more suited to current and future needs. We will save over $1 billion in the procurement process from what it would have been under the old Conservative EH-101 proposal.
In the House of Commons on May 7th, 2002. See this statement in context.