Thank you for that.
It's a very critical industry, one I do spend a lot of time concerning myself with. It is critical, again, to our industrial base, and it's critical because there's so much R and D that goes on in this particular industry.
We have something called the strategic aerospace defence initiative, or SADI, which levers private investments in order to pursue R and D right here in Canada, using our Canadian companies. For example, I made a recent announcement with CAE, which is a world leader in its area, of course, in flight simulators. We invested $152.8 million and they put in $714 million, so that's a huge investment. It means that Canada will continue to build and produce state-of-the-art flight simulators that are used all around the world. That's a great example. Bombardier has secured a $1.5 billion order for its C Series jet with Lufthansa and almost $1.5 billion for Lease Corp., so that's 50 firm orders for their C Series.
These are the kinds of things that keep that industry going, and certainly I see the investment that governments have made in research and development paying off in terms of jobs and opportunities. We must continue down that road, and we will continue down that road.