Mr. Speaker, the new Prime Minister continues to pretend that he was an invisible man for the past decade. It was a cabinet decision to purchase two new Challenger jets untendered at the end of a fiscal year in an undebated extravagant spending orgy.
In 1984 John Turner had an option. Well, in 2002 this Liberal Prime Minister, as the former finance minister, had an option too. He could have said that this was wrong.
Why did the Prime Minister okay the purchase of these unnecessary aircraft?