Mr. Speaker, I have already answered this question. I left my personal time to go back to work.
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Search and Rescue December 6th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, I have already answered this question. I left my personal time to go back to work.
Search and Rescue December 6th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, as I have said many times, I was on personal time on a trip I paid for myself. I was scheduled to be away for four days. I came back after the third day to go back to work. That is what happened.
Search and Rescue December 5th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, my answer remains the same. I was called back from my vacation to go back to work.
Search and Rescue December 5th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his calm, reasonable question. I was called back from personal time to go back to work, as I have said many times. That is what happened.
Search and Rescue December 5th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, as I have said many times, I was called back to work from personal time. Any suggestion that there was a re-tasking or a diversion of search and rescue aircraft from its actual tasking is simply untrue.
National Defence December 1st, 2011
I am not sure that was a question, Mr. Speaker. As I said before, I left personal time to go back to work.
What is also a guise is for the hon. member, who we know also flew in a Cormorant helicopter on several occasions, to stand and criticize.
National Defence December 1st, 2011
Mr. Speaker, as I just said, and as I have said before in the House a number of times, I took part in a search and rescue demonstration. That in fact happened. It has been confirmed by Brigadier-General Bédard who stated:
—the mutual gain was realized in the sense that we had been looking to showcase the Cormorant’s abilities and the search and rescue capabilities of the Canadian Forces to the minister.
National Defence December 1st, 2011
Mr. Speaker, I will ignore the hyperbole and the hyperventilating. I have said before that I was leaving personal time to go back to work early and before doing so, took part in a search and rescue exercise that we had been trying to arrange for some time.
National Defence November 30th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, the member for Northumberland—Quinte West, home of 8 Wing Trenton, is correct.
Today the Chief of the Defence Staff and other senior military commanders will welcome home the crew of Task Force Canuck, our outstanding Hercules aircraft unit that conducted operations in Afghanistan.
They began their engagement in Afghanistan in 2001, transporting Canadian Forces personnel and equipment in and out of the Kandahar airfield, as well as supporting the ISAF mission brilliantly. They completed more than 3,400 logistical and operational missions successfully and safely over that 10-year period.
We welcome them home. We thank them. We congratulate them. They are the best.
National Defence November 30th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, restoring the historic royal designation of the three branches re-establishes an important and recognizable part of our military heritage and establishes a link with similar important contributions made by the Canadian Forces today. We are very proud of this name and we are certainly very proud of the people who work very hard for our country every day.