Thank you for the questions.
Through you, Mr. Chairman, I outlined in our introductory remarks the characteristics that we deem in this model to be applicable to a defence industrial strategy. Those included early engagement between industry and government, and it would appear that that commitment and that undertaking have been met on F-35.
The commitment and targeting of government-supported industrial R and D from the earliest stages--we understand that the government has purchased intellectual property that it has the right to use and disclose, both at the production and at the sustainment phases of this program. We've suggested that a measure of an industrial strategy would be articulating and promoting domestic industrial priorities within a given program, and we believe that has also been the case...and the ability for Canadian companies to access the global supply chain of a major OEM. Again, this program is an opportunity for Canadian companies to do that.
So when we said it's too early to judge whether the model will work, we meant that. There have been opportunities that the government has reported have been earned by Canadian companies. We have enormous confidence in the capabilities and the competitiveness of Canadian industry, and there are at least a couple of years ahead of us to see exactly how much work, at the end of the day, Canadian industry will be able to earn from this program.