Thank you.
I have a quick point, Madam Fraser, on something Mr. Bachand said about foreign affairs policy, military policy, and so on. The length of all of these acquisition programs is very long. In fact, I was part of the F-18 program from start to finish. The SOR/75 was the last aircraft delivery in 1988. It was my squadron that took delivery of that last airplane. It was a huge program--138 airplanes--so it was going to take time.
The other point I really want to make and get your comment on is that there are basic elements that a military needs. Again, this may be outside your lane, but the military needs transports, helicopters of various kinds, fighters, a bunch of different things that we know, regardless of what foreign policy or military policy we have, we're going to need. So let's not delay; let's get on with buying the elements, because we know we're going to need them at some point.
Is that a fair statement?