Thank you, sir.
We didn't anticipate the Yugoslavia mission. We didn't anticipate we would have to fly air combat into Yugoslavia. No one anticipated the invasion of Kuwait in the first Iraq war and the second Iraq war. Most people would say you don't need stealth and an F-35 to do the close support missions in Afghanistan.
I would comment that we don't know what we don't know five years, 10 years, or 25 years from now. I would simply state that if you bought old technology today, your sons and daughters would go to some unforeseen conflict with a one-to-one chance of success because we've given them the same tools the bad guy probably has. Twenty years from now, their chance to come back alive would be one in ten or one in twenty. That's not an acceptable situation. We cannot predict the future. You cannot buy old technology that is acceptable for unforeseen threats for 20, 30, or 40 years.
In terms of the MOU, the primary reason you must withdraw from the MOU to run a competition is that one of the primary reasons we run competitions is to allow Canadian industry to have the opportunity of the normal IRB program that is a mandatory requirement for vendors. Dollar for dollar, 100% return of the investment that we pay out comes back to Canadian industry.
Under the MOU, it states very specifically that partner countries will not apply offsets and IRB policies if they intend to remain in the MOU. So you have to withdraw from the MOU to be able to do the competition and get the same or similar industrial benefits.
Sir, you had follow-on questions. I probably lost some of them.