I'm sorry, I have a second quick question. I don't have unlimited time.
Part of the government's Arctic foreign policy is to assert Canada's sovereignty. The defence policy also has made the Arctic a big focus. In early 2022, just three years ago, Canada and Finland announced the purchase of F-35 jets. For Finland I believe it's about 64 jets, and Canada indicated its intention to purchase 88. To that end, both the Finns and the Canadians are preparing training and facilities in the Far North to welcome the arrival of those jets.
The Auditor General has indicated that Canada is years behind schedule and won't be operational with the F-35s until at least 2033-2034. Finland, a much smaller country purchasing almost the same number of jets, is going to be fully operational with these jets in the Far North in 2030. I'm just wondering what the Finns are doing that allows them to purchase almost the same number of jets with a fraction of the resources that we have—I think they are a country of some four million people—and get them operational by 2030, where we are years behind schedule in a country with 10 times the resources, people and economy that the Fins have.
What are they doing that we are not doing to make this happen?
