Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for being here to answer some more questions today.
I've met with Canadian industry in my riding. I have a pretty big aerospace industry. There's CAE, Bombardier, several companies that have worked with the government and received contracts in the past. A major complaint they have is that we often go toward the outside and toward other countries instead of domestically procuring some of the equipment that we use in our Canadian Armed Forces.
They actually met with the minister recently. One of the reasons the minister gave was the fact that different countries that are all part of NATO have to have similar equipment when they're training and when they're working together.
First of all, can you confirm that this is a factor that's taken into account when looking at where to procure from and which equipment will be required for our Canadian Armed Forces?