Madam Speaker, the Liberal government avoided making any decisions on the F-35s for seven years.
In the meantime, it spent hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain the old CF-18s and purchased old FA-18s from Australia. It spent money bringing these jets up to standards and maintaining them. After this seven-year boondoggle, it has finally decided to buy the F‑35, the jet that the government swore it would never buy.
Could my colleague expand on that?