Thank you, Chair.
Madame Lussier, your organization represents aerospace firms most directly integrated into our allied supply chains—companies like Pratt & Whitney Canada that already supply parts to the F-35s.
We've seen reporting that the F-35 outperforms the Gripen E “by a mile”—that's in the DND's 2021 report—scoring 95% on capability compared to 33% for the Gripen. Given that Canadian firms already have high-value work in the F-35 global supply chain, would a shift to a non-partner platform like the Gripen effectively pull us out or risk pulling us out of a multi-billion dollar, multidecade-long network that directly supports jobs in Quebec and Canada?