Mr. Deputy Speaker, let me be the very first to congratulate you on your new role. I note for everyone that the current Deputy Speaker used to sit beside me in the House, and I think he went out of his way to become the Deputy Speaker just so that he would not have to sit with me anymore.
I would like to thank my colleague for his speech and congratulate him on winning and on his maiden speech.
Yesterday, at CANSEC, which is basically the defence contractors conference, the Minister of Defence spoke glowingly about the need to find money to spend on defence. This is wonderful, but he gave an example of another country that cut 22% of its public service; he spoke glowingly of another country that eliminated national holidays.
Could my colleague comment on the Minister of Defence's comments? Is that their plan here, and if not, how are they going to find money for all the added defence spending the government has planned?