Mr. Speaker, this vehicle was at the end of its life a decade ago and the government has known it for quite a while.
In 1993 the government was told the Iltis should be replaced because it posed a safety problem. The government refused and instead cut the defence budget. A decade later our military is burdened with decaying, unsafe and antiquated equipment of all kinds of which the Iltis is only one example.
When will the government stop unnecessarily putting the lives of Canadian servicemen and servicewomen at risk?