Mr. Speaker, I hope the hon. member is not referring to his own leader as cutesy and flippant. My point is that whereas the government committed $5 billion of additional defence spending to the military in the years to 2006, his own current Leader of the Opposition, writing in his so-called taxpayers' budget, called for a $1 billion cut in defence spending. Where do they stand?
In the House of Commons on June 4th, 2002. See this statement in context.