Mr. Speaker, it appears that the only people asking questions are the opposition members. Clearly, it is not the ministers themselves.
When the PBO tabled the F-35 cost estimates in 2011, he was ridiculed by the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Defence and the Conservative caucus. In 2010, though, the U.S. government had already told the government that the F-35s would “cost more and take longer to finish than planned”. The PBO was right and the Prime Minister was wrong.
Did the minister know that he was misleading Parliament, or is he merely incompetent?