Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Ross.
I would suggest, Mr. Ross, that's precisely why we need an airplane like the F-35, which is the best available, to counter adversaries that...we don't necessarily know what they're going to look like in 10 or 20 years.
I will comment on a couple of things the opposition has brought up. That Su-35 comparison was done by a retired wing commander from the Royal Australian Air Force, who was a Mirage-III pilot. That was the last aircraft he flew. His comparison.... In fact it's not his fault; he doesn't have access to the information on the F-35. He's making a comparison with a fourth-generation look at a fifth-generation comparison, without understanding fifth-generation technology.
We talked about Canada's requirements. We have nine countries within the MOU, and Israel and others are looking at it. Most of the countries within the MOU have similar operational requirements to Canada: we operate in similar missions, in similar areas. Obviously we're going to be operating side by side with them on a lot of missions.
Is it fair to say there's some comfort that all of those countries that operate similarly to Canada have reached the same conclusion? Is that a fair statement?