You're right, it was an arrangement between the Government of Canada and a company, MDA, back in the late 1990s. I have never seen the documentation from that time, and I was not there at the time, but I don't think it had any provisions about what would happen if MDA decided to sell to another party. So perhaps that part of it just wasn't brought into this.
However, what did change was Bill C-25. That was not something that was envisaged back in the late 1990s, but it was something brought about six or seven years later on. I'm not an expert on Bill C-25, but you've heard some of the comments made by Professor Byers, and I think it is something that has changed the equation in regard to respecting the engagements of a company that gets sold to another company, in this case an American company.