Mr. Chairman, clearly that is an evasive answer. It is a complete red herring.
Unless the defence department all of a sudden has unlimited resources that $100 million comes from some other more worthy project. I can think of a lot of them, whether it is Sea Kings or uniforms or whether it is all kinds of other very necessary equipment that the Canadian forces require right now, especially at a time when we have troops with their lives on the line in Afghanistan. Unless the minister has invented a way to pull $100 million off a money tree somewhere, that money has to come from some other area. There is just no other way of doing it.
Would the minister then tell me, if it did not come from Sea Kings and the purchase was really unplanned until 10 days before it happened, where was that money scheduled to go until it was inevitably spent on those Challenger jets?