Mr. Speaker, that is a nice try. There is a gap there, that is for sure. I think it is his enormous cuts.
First, the Prime Minister threw a wrench in the plans when he cancelled the Sea Kings in 1993. He said that the old ones could keep going with a lot of maintenance, and I do mean a lot of maintenance, like 30 hours for every 1 hour of flight.
Now we do not even have these skilled mechanics required to keep these dinosaurs airborne; it takes four years to train them.
When will mister fix-it here stop tooling around and give our military the resources it is so desperately seeking?