For a number of years, our association has definitely been calling for the military expenditure and investment plans made by the Department of National Defence to be more representative of Canadian technological capacities and of our capacity to produce military equipment for our forces. We obviously think it's logical that, if we must spend taxpayers' money on DND equipment, which is obviously very important, the benefits of those investments should be higher for Canadians; they should help create jobs in Canada, and develop Canadian technologies and Canada's sovereignty. We have capacity and talent in spades. Our workers are among the best in the world in terms of aeronautics R & D.
We feel that the expenditures should reflect those capacities and that we should know how to further enhance them.