Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
I know it's an important time for your organizations, particularly with the joint strike fighter, and what it means in terms of business for Canadian companies, for employees, and the opportunity to certainly get the new technology and participate in this joint strike fighter program. As you said, your industries can compete and have competed worldwide.
There are a few questions in terms of general information that I'd like to find out from you folks. All of you can take an opportunity to answer this.
I did hear about some subcontractors that potentially your organizations work for. I think, Mr. Beach, you said there were something like 22 companies. I don't know how many employees that is, but what would happen if in fact we cancelled the joint strike fighter in terms of those kinds of contracts?
I'd also like to find out from Monsieur Labbé and Monsieur Guitton, what is the number of subcontractors that you have and the impact of the loss of a contract?