Mr. Chair, as I said in my remarks, Irving disclosed this to Canada early. It also disclosed it to all the bidders. There are separate bid teams. We have fairness monitors in both of the procurement processes.
As I also said, our goal is to maximize competition and innovation. It's a fairly small base of suppliers and, quite frankly, when you look at any industry like this, you will see relationships among suppliers. It's quite common. We're used to dealing with it in the defence context, but also in other contexts where you have large companies which often will either acquire one another or develop alliances. It's a regular feature for procurement processes. We're used to dealing with it, and we do monitor it very carefully so that it doesn't affect procurement outcomes.
The other piece of this is that Canada is very heavily involved. We are, in a sense, co-leading all of the aspects of the evaluation here, and we ultimately make the final decision on who will win the outcome of this process.