Thank you, Chair.
And thank you, sir and lady, for coming today.
I want to ask you about the strategy that was described to us by the former ADM Materiel, Alan Williams, to participate in the joint strike fighter development program. As he described it to us, the purpose of Canada's participation was to increase the knowledge base of Canadian companies so that we would have experience in that field and would be able to get contracts to move to the next level of Canadian capability.
Even on a stand-alone basis, he deemed the joint strike fighter development program a success. He also indicated that initially there was no commitment, of course, to buy the particular results of that fighter jet, but that the program on a stand-alone basis was valuable and useful.
From an industrial, defence industry strategy point of view, would your organization agree that this was the result?