Your statement here that it would be dishonest to do that seems to contradict directly the Minister of Defence, who said that there will be—“will be”, future tense—an open, competitive, transparent process.
Now, it's all very well to say that the military has decided that the next-generation fighter that they want is this particular strike fighter, but I'm asking for a statement of requirements to meet our specific needs, something that could spell out the operational requirements based on military, strategic, and other studies that would demonstrate that this is what we need.
We've talked about patrolling the Arctic; we've talked about possibly interceptor aircraft. You don't need a stealth striker aircraft to patrol the Arctic or the offshore of the east coast. These are the kinds of operational requirements that need to be determined before you could even decide whether the F-35 is what we need or whether we could buy F-15s like the Saudi Arabians did.