Sir, what we were trying to point out in our presentation to you this afternoon is the importance of identifying early on what industrial activity or industrial objectives the government has as it moves forward and spends a dollar on defence. We believe that time was spent early on in the F-35 debate within the Department of National Defence, within Industry Canada, perhaps even within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, so there were articulated industrial objectives early on in that project. While among our 860 members there may be discussion around whether they're the right ones or the not complete ones, that's a subject for our 860 members to debate. What I'm suggesting is that a key characteristic of an industrial strategy is to figure out what the country needs from an industrial base perspective in order to be sovereign, secure, and strong economically, and this model went down that road.
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