It is not the same perspective. They can use as much political rhetoric as they like, as the Minister of National Defence did this afternoon, but they cannot deny that this was requested by the Bloc Quebecois (1630) Second, we asked, and we defended the principle during the election campaign, that a fair share of Canada's national defence budget be spent in Quebec.
Quelques mots sur la défense nationale, parce que le ministre des Finances a relevé cet après-midi, tout comme le ministre de la Défense nationale, la position du Bloc québécois à ce sujet.