Mr. Chair, you can even quote what I said last time. I will repeat it. What you are saying is true. Right now, any company in Quebec or Canada would be happy to get a contract with Lockheed Martin. However, if there are no contractual guarantees, the contract could end at any given time, and these people could very well decide not to renew the contract with the same company. The issue, here, is the guarantee of a firm contract and the legal option to initiate proceedings if the contract is not respected.
You just said that will not happen. This is in fact a new approach, which includes the possibility of gaining access to 5,000 aircraft, as you mentioned, Mr. Clement. It is true that our companies are world leaders and that we are giving up our sovereignty. I know what it means to delegate responsibilities to someone else. Sovereignty is a bit like that. And you are leaving it up to Lockheed Martin. At any point, it could very well decide to assign end support service to someone else. Without contractual protection, these companies will be overlooked.
I maintain my position that you should ask the Lockheed Martin people to give our companies minimum contractual protection. Obviously, those that have the contract now are happy, but we need to make sure that our companies will be able to go further, contractually speaking. That is all I wanted to say.