Mr. Speaker, the hon. member misses some rather salient facts.
While she says that the budget spending ramped up to $21 billion and that was largely driven by the operational needs of Afghanistan, she neglects to mention that by the time this government came into power, it then melted down to about $18.6 billion.
The member also neglects to mention that the built-in escalator actually increased the budget this year by $301 million.
As well, she neglects to mention that the $3.7 billion was re-profiled into later years, in part because the so-called procurement program, which she thinks is such a terrific program, is actually not delivering the ships that the men and women in uniform need to have.
Therefore, there is a collection of failures in the Conservatives' so-called decade.