Mr. Speaker, we are talking about transparency. In the budget document, there were 456 mentions of investment spending. The member talked about the Canadian Armed Forces' plan of “Strong, Secure, Engaged”. For the largest department of the federal government, DND, the Canadian Forces, do members want to know how many times it was mentioned in the budget? It was zero.
The member talked about transparency. The Minister of National Defence, a few weeks ago, said the government is not lapsing funds for DND. That was proven not to be the case. We are debating main estimates today and when the public accounts come in, we will see how much they match. For a government that talks so much about transparency, why is it continually reprofiling spending for our Canadian Armed Forces, why did they not even merit a mention in the budget, and why is the Minister of National Defence not being clear with Canadians on how much funding the government is lapsing each year?