Mr. Speaker, the member from the Bloc is absolutely right. The 5%, 1.5% of which can go into infrastructure or a soft cost for the military, is only a piece of it. The other money is supposed to actually go into national defence to make our country safer.
What was mentioned earlier was the Coast Guard. The fact is that other countries' coast guards, which are included in the NATO calculation of 3.5% for the equipment, are actually armed. Our Coast Guard is not armed. All it would be doing is what it should have been doing already, and that is sharing information with defence, based on what it sees on the oceans.