Yes. The cost of the Canadian airplane will be exactly what the U.S. cost is, because you're going to buy the airplane with the United States. It's going to come to us as one contract. We're going to build 200 airplanes, and some number of those airplanes will belong to Canada. We don't know which ones, because we don't have a separate contract with Canada.
So you have the buying power. This is the difference in having a competition. You have the buying power of a much larger quantity of airplanes to drive the cost down, and you have a very extensive negotiation process that we go through with the U.S. government on your behalf. There are advantages to that.
Now, in terms of the cost, when the U.S. looks at cost, they're not looking at cost through the same criteria that Canada looks at cost. They're looking at what it costs to establish a large number of operational bases inside the U.S. and what does it cost to complete the development program? Canada's costs are fixed and Canada will have a much smaller infrastructure, so the numbers you quoted are numbers that are in the media, but they're not an accurate representation of the cost of the Canadian airplane.
A better record is to look at the cost that we've actually settled our contracts for and project down that cost curve to the point at which Canada's going to buy their airplanes, which is still out in the future, four years from now, before the first contract is made. At that point in time, we have a very good estimate of what the cost is going to be for the Canadian airplanes, and we have a good confidence--not 100% confidence, but good confidence--band around that. And the amount of money that your government has budgeted for the airplane will be well within that.
You have to look at the numbers that are being used in the Washington media as not being completely representative of what Canada is going to pay for the airplane. You'll pay the unit price of the airplane--the same unit price the U.S. pays--but you won't be paying to put all the U.S. infrastructure in place, and you won't be paying all the development costs of the airplane.