Thank you for the question.
As I described to the committee when I last met with you, we have had a number of opportunities over the past years to do simulation exercises as a partner in the JSF program. We have also done some unilateral simulation, all at a very highly classified level.
In those simulations we have looked at a range of different adversaries and different combinations of those adversaries. One thing that has been made very clear to Canadians and the Canadians involved in this process is that the types of capabilities that are available with the F-35 are needed to meet the requirements that have been spelled out by the director of air requirements and approved by the process within the department. Those capabilities are needed explicitly for the defence of Canada and the cooperative defence of North America.