I'm assuming that in the process of your determination on the F-35 you know the nature of the challenges in the world. You know what other countries are doing; you try to anticipate the future as best you can. And it's your job, from an air perspective, to try to deliver to those best-anticipated needs. That's your job, and to make that known to National Defence.
I assume it's up to National Defence then to decide that it's their job to try to work on the safety and security of Canada and on the safety, security, and effectiveness of our military, and to take that into consideration knowing that choices have to be made. Money goes to the air force, or to the navy, or to the army, or it goes to certain other ways in which one works on the security and safety of the country.
Is that the process you went through? Knowing that you're not determining it—and even National Defence is not determining it, but Foreign Affairs would be determining what they would imagine—how would we, in the position that we're in, determine the best direction in which to go on the purchase of an F-35 if it was not in the context of all the rest that I'm speaking about?