Mr. Speaker, we also remember that when the conflict in Afghanistan ended, the Conservatives gutted the defence budget, taking $2.5 billion away from it, and reduced it, for the only time in our history, to less than 1%.
I have had many conversations with members of the Canadian Armed Forces and they have never told me that what they need is another vacuous slogan. What they say is they need real investment in ships, in planes, in infrastructure and, most importantly, in our people. Every time we have come before the House and asked for money for those investments and those people, Conservatives have voted against it.