First, allow me to digress for a moment. You'll be proud, because it will be a good topic of conversation to start up with people at Christmas. I want to point out that Montreal is the only city in the world where three major aircraft manufacturers are present. We've made significant progress in this area. Bombardier, Boeing and Airbus set up shop in Montreal, which is exceptional. In fact, last week, I visited Airbus workers. It's pretty impressive to go to one of the Canadian cities where they assemble entire airplanes from top to bottom.
I'll go back to your question. I was at the big aerospace industry meeting. In fact, I think you and I both were there. We're working with them to develop a national strategy. I think that's going to be important, because defence plays into this.
We also have to look at how we can use Canadian businesses, and I'm thinking here of small and medium-sized businesses, or SMEs, in the major programs in place. We have to make sure that we can offer economic benefits for businesses.
That said, we're working hard to develop the strategy, and we're in discussions with the various industry stakeholders. We need to make sure we have a policy that will encourage investment here and favour SMEs. We also have to ensure that we attract talent to our country so that Canada can be a leader in the 21st‑century aerospace sector.