When it comes to our missions that we fly, we didn't have enough aircraft to fly them. I think we can agree that within our NORAD and NATO commitments we have to have a certain number of aircraft to fill those needs.
We were on a path with Boeing to look at the purchase of brand new Super Hornets, but unfortunately, Boeing took an approach that was undermining our Canadian aerospace sector, and the economy and jobs of Canadians are very important to our government; hence, the reason.
We were very fortunate at that time when this came about that Australia was looking at selling its F-18s, the same model we fly. It was very fortunate—