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Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant has drawn more attention to herself for all the wrong reasons.

Last month, her office used a photo of slain Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in a Conservative fundraising campaign that offered donors Easter hams. (Gallant later had to apologize after receiving complaints from Canadian Forces veterans).

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This time, Gallant is making some bizarre claims after a Citizen article revealed that some funding for Cyclone maritime helicopters as well as the Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP) was being delayed because of the Liberal government’s new budget.

She accused the Liberal government of failing the Canadian Forces and putting troops at risk in Afghanistan.

“Only Liberals would sell off our Chinook helicopters before a replacement, which was supposed to be the EH-101 helicopter, was in place,” Gallant said in the Commons and highlighted in a news release sent out Friday to journalists. “Without the strategic lift helicopters cancelled by the Liberals, soldiers died unnecessarily on the bomb-laden roads of Afghanistan.”