Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to welcome you and to thank you for appearing before us. You made a very generous contribution today. I was very glad to hear your presentation. I am addressing this question to all three of you.
With regard to the famous so-called advance contract award notice, would I be right in saying that if we identify too much with a single company, we lose all our negotiation leverage? In fact, we are too much at the mercy of the company and it takes advantage of the situation to impose its own conditions.
My next question is for Mr. Page.
We already discussed the importance of Canadian content and of the fact that the entirety of the spinoffs should go back to the aerospace industries. Why should we not request that things be done in this way? For instance, with the C-17 aircraft and the Chinook, the contracts have to do with this sector. The aerospace sector is involved in high technology research and development. I already said that 60% of the spinoffs was not enough. Besides, I have heard the same comment several times from representatives of the industry in Quebec.
We really have no interest in exchanging the entirety of funds assigned to the aerospace sector, for a 40% share allocated to Atlantic salmon or to Arctic spruce. I think that you could clarify this matter.
Finally, I would like to know whether, in your opinion, the Minister of Industry failed to do his duty when he told the people from Boeing that they could share out the economic spinoffs as they saw fit in Canada, without taking into account important regions like Quebec, that harbours 60% of the Canadian aerospace industry.