In that case, I will continue.
Very good.
I will do so in English and in French
if you're comfortable with that.
On the issue of criteria, when we had a company, through the ACAN process--which is meant to be open, fair, and transparent--we posted it for 30 days instead of 15 days, to give more time to people to say they could probably meet those high-level requirements. We rated that company against the seven high-level requirements identified by DND. Why did we not rate Chinooks--Boeing--against the criteria? Well, they were the source of the criteria, so they had passed the first door, essentially. That is the reason.
The third point—