On the first question about what kind of air capabilities, I have a very different view on this one than Professor Huebert. There's only one question for me, and that is, what are the Americans flying?
Because of the crucial importance of the air defence of North America, still, after all these years, for me there's only one question to be asked and answered, and that is, what are the Americans flying in the defence of North America and what, then, are we going to be flying? They won't let us fly F-22s, but they're going to be flying F-22s and F-35s, so we need to be flying F-35s as well. From that point of view, that's the reason why, in response to Madame Vignola's question, it really wasn't fair, but that's another issue.
On the question of going after niche, the one thing that hasn't changed since I wrote Charlie Foxtrot in 2016 is that Canadians have not grown any less cheap about defence expenditures. They may be willing to increase the defence budget in the shorter term, given what's happening in the world, but the essence is that Canadians are still extremely cheap, and therefore we need to tailor our military along the lines of what actually Canadians will agree to purchase.