Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd just like to remind Mr. Blaney that, thanks to the economic policies of the previous government, there is actually money there to make defence procurements and other procurements. That process was well under way before we began experiencing this hiccup that we're doing now.
I have two questions, Mr. Minister. One, according to The Globe and Mail this morning, it appears that a contract has been awarded to CAE Inc. of Montreal for training air force crews on the new Hercules and Chinook helicopters. That's a plane contract that hasn't even been awarded yet. I wonder who else was competing for that training contract.
Two, how do you actually award the regional benefits? Do you take into consideration all the government assistance to the aerospace industry, in this case? As you know, a lot of government assistance goes to the aerospace industry, as it does to the automobile industry and so on. Is it all taken into consideration when you decide what region should get what? How does that actually work?
So there are two questions: on the training contract that appears to have been awarded, and the actual way you divide the regional industrial benefits.