I'm not going to speak hypothetically on whether he could or not. What I am going to say to you is that in the case of the strategic airlift project, there was no direction received from the government with respect to the requirements themselves. When I finished my refinement process that I spoke about and the SOR was prepared for the Chief of the Air Staff to review, the requirements never changed after that point.
On February 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.