Mr. Speaker, it is interesting that, in the presence of the Minister of National Defence, the parliamentary secretary intervenes to block the flow of information and conversation.
The former government put $13 billion into the Canadian military, the biggest increase in 20 years, bigger than anything the former Conservatives had done and 13 times bigger than the present government has done.
We have no guarantee of military priorities, no guarantee of sovereign control and no guarantee of Canadian jobs.
Could the government at least assure us that the process will be transparent, with open competitive bidding?