For sure. The Auditor General actually looked at this. My colleague may want to comment at some point.
We were looking for 15 helicopters. We wanted them to be able not simply to pick up troops and bring them to another spot, but essentially to operate in the Canadian environment, including with different weather challenges and over long distances. The design had to be modified to include larger fuel tanks to enable that.
We also wanted the Chinooks to do more than simply what one arm of the service would expect. The Special Operations Forces Command wanted to be able to use the aircraft as well.
Larger allies like America will build or buy multiple variants of this particular helicopter, but in our case, we buy technically relatively small fleets, and we try to jam as much into them as we can. Sometimes that's wish-list thinking. Sometimes, though, it's just about operational realities. You want a helicopter that can actually do multiple things. The challenge is that you are changing the design. That involves IP negotiations, incorporating the new designs into a helicopter that's been around since the sixties, and then ensuring that it comes off the production line.