Mr. Chairman, when you listen to your testimony and the previous testimony, and we've listened to Boeing and Lockheed Martin, they obviously raise more questions than answers. Obviously the question is, given what has been presented by all the companies--and they've all made excellent presentations--what is wrong with having a fair, open, and transparent competition for something that is in Canada's national interest? We obviously need new fighter aircraft. We all agree. We all agree we want to have the best possible price. We want to have the best economic benefits for Canadian industry, and we want to ensure that we're able to afford it, given the fact that we have a significant national deficit at the present time.
You said you could meet or exceed anything the F-35 could produce. One of the things you pointed out, which I thought was interesting, was the range--4,000 kilometres. You could go, in fact, from Goose Bay to Inuvik.