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Defence Reform

No one can deny the intellectual logic behind the hon. Gentleman's point, but anyone who has spoken to a Canadian Defence Minister in recent years will have got a strong message: ““Whatever you try, don't try that.”” There are differences in the approach of the single services, sometimes differences in the ethos of the single services and, clearly, differences in their history too. As we are asking our servicemen and women to do so much for us, the last thing that we want to do is to destroy that important emotional attachment to their heritage.