Madam Speaker, it was very refreshing to hear a Conservative speak off the cuff and not read out an AI-generated speech. I appreciate that.
I notice that the member spoke, very importantly, and I would agree with him, about supporting our military. I am wondering whether he can reflect on the fact that the only time in modern history when our military spending dropped below 1% of our GDP was while he was the parliamentary secretary to the minister of defence. It is very rich for him to come in here and say that we have to spend more on our military, when he was directly responsible for allowing spending to get below 1%.
However, let us not talk about the past; I am willing to focus on the future. The current government has shown how we are going to get to approximately 1.8% and how we will go beyond that to achieve our NATO target of 2%. While the member and I were on the defence committee together, we both agreed it should be at 2%. Can he stand up today and say that if elected to form government, the Conservatives will actually commit to increasing to 2% of GDP, yes or no?