I'll start off on that and indicate that you're quite right; a lot of these contracts are based on a 40-year lifespan of procurement. Certainly the industrial agreements that Industry Canada has pursued with Lockheed, Pratt & Whitney, and GE Rolls-Royce basically are the keys that unlock the access to the global supply chain. If you talk to Goodrich in your riding, if you go to Bristol-Magellan in Winnipeg, if you go to Pratt & Whitney in Montreal, they'll all be saying the same thing. I gather they'll be here deposing before this committee as well.
That's the key for future jobs. It's not just building for the Canadian supply; it's getting access to the global supply chain. That's what this industry wants. That's what they've told me they want in future IRB agreements that are made, and they certainly would opt for that with respect to the F-35s.
So yes, you're looking at a stream of work, over multiple decades, that allows the companies to do the hires, to hire the skilled labour. We have 83,000 people who work in the Canadian aerospace industry. We are world leaders in many different aspects of aerospace. I want those 83,000 people to be not only guaranteed for those jobs, but we want to expand those jobs, obviously, to renew jobs in our communities. That's the kind of work we're contemplating by making the decision we made here.