Perhaps I could get in one more question before the first round ends. It may come back to me again. This one is more directed toward your leadership, I suppose, and a question of confidence that the Canadian public and Parliament need to have in you, and it has to do with the F-35s.
We know that one of your roles in 2010 was to promote across the country the choice of the F-35. I don't know what you recall, but you were making the rounds of the country touting the virtues of the F-35.
As you know, of course, this is now under review. We hope, certainly on this side—because as a committee, we started a study of the F-35. We heard from some of the manufacturers and we heard all the arguments. We didn't write a report.
What I want to know is this. I don't think it's going to be left up to Mr. Fonberg as deputy minister, although he's on this committee. Clearly the Canadian Forces are going to have a significant say in this. We're being told that there's going to be a review, or a so-called “options analysis”. We assume this means a re-evaluation of what the choices are in terms of aircraft or in terms of whether we should have a mixed fleet of fighters, for example, to perform our various tasks, including patrolling the longest coastline in the world, etc., and the capabilities that are required for one function over another.
Can you tell us how you can give us confidence that despite your role in the past, you will be able to participate in this in a fair and objective way so that Canadians can be convinced that this is not just a public relations exercise?