Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has turned the urgent need to replace our 40 year old Sea King helicopters into 10 years of national disgrace.
The Liberals bent over backwards to address specious complaints by the French government that our military's requirements were too stringent, so the government lowered them.
Our new French allies have now rejected the successful $4 billion bid for aircraft engines by Montreal's Pratt & Whitney for blatantly political reasons of their own.
Will the Liberal government admit that its willingness to dumb down the replacement requirements to keep the French happy has backfired?