Thank you for your question.
We talk a lot about programs, and we talk a lot about projects as well, but it's important that the federal government start off with a comprehensive strategy for the aerospace industry. As you know, we're taking a major turn toward sustainable development and a green economy, and we're ready. We've already started up projects. We're asking the government to be a strategic partner, as is done in other countries, and to devote a program to aerospace so that, for example, we can acquire expert assistance.
You've heard about France, which has announced an enormous program to launch a hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2035 and has made massive investments for that purpose. It has made a public commitment to do so. The entire planet is aware of it.
We would like the Canadian government, with all the resources and know-how there are, to create a program like that, a mobilizing and structure-building program that involves the players of Canada's aerospace industry from east to west.
We already have an idea for a hybrid, electric or hydrogen propulsion project, involving more than 50 businesses from across Canada that have made a commitment. We have submitted it to the federal government, which has not yet made any commitment. It always seems to group us together under a program called the strategic innovation fund, which includes various sectors. It doesn't seem to be interested in the specific dynamic of the aeronautics sector, whereas that's what really helps a sector achieve local and international success.
In fact, what I'd like to say is that sustainable innovation has to be accelerated by means of the strategic aerospace industry program.