Mr. Speaker, the Liberals provided the largest single budget increase in the last 20 years for defence.
Despite his repetition of his compliance with the previous standards, where he came from and all the rules, the fact is that no prime minister in Canadian history has appointed a highly paid lobbyist as minister for a department that he had lobbied. Because of his past, the minister is absolutely in a potential conflict of interest. He is dealing with a $1 billion contract for the purchase of trucks, where Stewart Stevenson, one of the former lobbyists, is the leading--