In terms of future capabilities, of course, we were part of the MOU when we signed on. We signed on again in a 2006 MOU. That's a 45-year program. As you know, that MOU lasts 45 years, and Canada can participate in that MOU for as long as it wants.
Something you said in your statement today and the last time you appeared, when you made another statement in September on this, talking about the aircraft being sustained, is:
We will be able to replace lost aircraft—or acquire additional aircraft if the future global situation demands it—because the production line will operate until at least 2035.
That is for the next 25 years that these planes will be in production.
In terms of flexibility and capability, we have the ability to acquire either more of these planes or potentially some of these planes over the next 35 years. I say that because when we needed Chinooks for Afghanistan, we didn't get them by making them; we got them by acquiring them. We've used them and we're acquiring some now, but we won't have them until we're back from Afghanistan.
Could the same thing happen with these fighter jets? Could we acquire them if we actually need them and get the jets that we need now?