Madam Chair, obviously the member for Carleton—Mississippi Mills is far more aware of what the shortcomings are.
I agree with him wholeheartedly. If we are doing this stuff in a hurry, then we were shortsighted some time ago, not yesterday, not last week, but months and years ago. This is the problem.
I have been to military bases. I have seen some of our equipment. I have seen trucks on blocks with the wheels rusted off. We have let the military deteriorate to a state where we are so far behind that it is a case of catching up. We have to move into the future.
We all know about the airlift capabilities, the helicopters. That has been an issue for some time. The military has been shortchanged over the last several years. Now we have the forces in a theatre where they need the equipment. They have the people. They are excellent people, but we have not properly equipped them.
That is all we are talking about. We should have done this before we committed them to this theatre.