First, our Canadian industry clearly has the capabilities to do $16 billion worth of work, let alone $12 billion worth of work or $4 billion worth of work. We have the expertise and the technical ability.
I'm concerned about guarantees. I have zero confidence, frankly, that Lockheed Martin is going to guarantee us $16 billion worth of work. I am absolutely concerned that we will not get the in-service work to maintain our sovereignty, to a large extent.
The argument is interesting. The argument is that we need to buy stealth bombers, in essence—stealth aircraft, stealth fighters—to maintain our own sovereignty, to be in control of our own destiny. But then we're going to let the United States service our planes, so we'll get them when we get them.
You can't have it both ways. If we say we legitimately need these aircraft for this purpose, then we ought to at least be in control of when we can fly them. It's an interesting argument.
I'm very much in favour of saying that if we have a history that shows we can negotiate a minimum of 100% offsets, I don't see what makes this any different. I understand the argument that we have access to the bigger pie, but the pie is going to be disbursed by Lockheed Martin. It's not broken up based on participation. If it were broken up based on participation, then I would suggest that the United States' buying of over 2,000 aircraft will certainly put them in the driver's seat, as compared with our 65.