That's a very good point, sir. There are two problems with that. First, under current government contract regulations, when you clearly have only one supplier you actually should directly negotiate with that supplier. In this case, you would do it through the PMOU.
The other serious issue with that is the time it would have taken, during which the global supply chain for joint strike fighter production would have effectively excluded Canadian companies to billions of dollars of detriment.
So we had two major issues with the time and effort it would have taken to do a process that would have had the same outcome.