Nothing is holding me back. That's why I'm here. And I agree with you, industry should be more vocal. And I hope, finally, that our industry association will be more vocal in making known this position that we now all believe we have unity on--that it's Canada first. And we really want to keep the situation as it is. There are two points the government makes, a single-point accountability...and I believe they've had that.
We look after the Aurora fleet of aircraft. We have done since its inception. We won it competitively, as we did the Sea Kings--competitively. We can't change them every year; we've had those fleets. As I said in my notes to you, there's very little recourse they have to go back to Sikorsky or Lockheed Martin concerning those fleets. They have it.
Then the other thing is that they say performance-based is the other part of their pillar. In terms of performance-based, there's none that perform better than some of the Canadian companies who jump head over heels for DND because we're so proud to work for our own department and government. I don't know what more performance you can get there. But if there was a restriction put in place that our foreign policies ever diverged, going forward, I don't know where your performance would go then--against your national interests--and we'll be completely in the hands of the State Department and other directives that these commercial companies get at that time. If that's the position you want to put us all in, that's the route you're going down. And companies like ours may as well not just work for them, we may as well be owned by them.
So these are the risks out there that perhaps some of the government officials.... And they're all good people. I know many of them and I'm not here to criticize them. But as an industrialist and as an industry leader, I'm giving you a heads-up that this is the wrong road to go down. There are many hazards, and it's not all just over money; it's over security and jobs in Canada and having our own sovereignty decided in this city--policies.