Mr. Speaker, he did not address the broken promise at all. It was not even in his department.
On two days notice to the military, the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister made an emergency visit to the Arctic to avoid a major world aids conference.
Now the military reports that they disrupted a northern sovereignty exercise. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence should know when a northern sovereignty exercise is going on in the north.
The government caused more disruption by raising the hopes of people in small Arctic villages that they would have a great economic boost of an Arctic port.
Now that the government has broken that promise, what will it do for the economic development of these small northern communities?