Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As we're meeting here, over in the public accounts committee the Auditor General is appearing on the F-35s and the report she just did. We also have over there the deputy minister of national defence, Stefanie Beck, along with air force commander Lieutenant-General Jamie Speiser-Blanchet. They said that we should be buying the F-35s. They support the F-35s. They're going to continue to build infrastructure to support the fleet of F-35s.
Minister McGuinty said back in the summer that he would take the recommendation that comes from the Canadian Armed Forces and the department as to what we should be doing, yet Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr continues to drag his feet in this review and refuses to come forward with a recommendation based upon the experts within the department and within the Canadian Armed Forces.
I want to quickly ask each and every one of you, should Canada buy the F-35, yes or no?