Mr. Speaker, the defence minister said several times that operating costs for the F-35 would be the same as the CF-18 operating costs. Now, the former parliamentary secretary is admitting that the F-35 will be much more expensive to fly than our CF-18s, roughly $12,000 more per hour.
Here is another contradiction. He now admits that the delivery of the planes will be pushed back by several years owing to delays in rising costs.
Is the parliamentary secretary making up numbers or is this a sign of an impending cabinet shuffle?