Mr. Speaker, under Stephen Harper's decade of darkness, funding for Canada's military dipped below 1% of GDP for the first and only time ever. This had a very negative impact on military bases like 5 Wing Goose Bay in my own riding. Our new government, on the other hand, is committed to rebuilding, rearming and reinvesting in our Canadian Armed Forces.
Unlike the members opposite, I proudly voted for our budget, a budget that delivers generational investments in our capacity to strengthen and protect sovereignty. To those who voted against these investments in our defence—