Mr. Speaker, I guess it is long past the time when the Minister of National Defence can stand up and defend his actions on the F-35 fiasco. That minister once said, “If this procurement is cancelled so another competition can be held, it will cost taxpayers a billion dollars and will create an operational gap for the air force in the future”.
In 2011, the Prime Minister even said that lives might be lost or at risk if the F-35 was not sole sourced.
Will the minister or the Prime Minister either defend these statements or else apologize to Canadians for these outrageous comments?