Mr. Speaker, the chief of the defence staff, General Henault, recently said that our armed forces were in danger of becoming irrelevant unless there was a significant input of money to address rust out. In fact, one of our sailors recently said, “If there are no parts to be had anywhere in Canada except off other ships, you know you are really hurting”.
My question for the minister is simply this: Why has the government and the minister reduced our military to scavenging for parts from other ships in order to do their job?