Minister, I'm still not quite clear about your answer on this newspaper article regarding the most recent delay. Could you please be a little more clear in your remarks? All through your remarks you've been talking about your responsibility to the taxpayer, etc. Well, we have an obligation to the taxpayer to tell them whether or not we are buying these planes and how much they will cost. They should know that before the next federal election and not afterwards.
As it stands, Canadians are being asked to buy the world's most expensive pig in a poke, sight unseen, with no competition, for an airplane that's not even certified yet. It's more political than operational on the face of it.