Thank you to the witnesses for attending today.
One of the concerns—and I've tried to bring this up at other times—is the government's movement toward this idea of sole-source and how that seems to be a contradiction.
It's not exactly what you're dealing with, but in terms of that F-35 contract, the Conservative government came forward and said, “We are going to sole-source.”
Then the Liberals said, “No, that's never going to happen.” Then they opened up, and they wanted to.... They said, “Under all of that transparency, we have to have an open bidding process.” It took years, and it took quite a lot more money only to end up in the same position at the end.
Could you talk about that switch you're seeing and how difficult that is? They've gone from defending this open-source bidding to, again, sole-sourcing. How are you seeing that? They tend to use keywords such as “urgent operating requirements” and this pressure that they seem to be under. Can you talk about how that's impacting your industry overall? We've certainly heard that from others.