Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. To Mr. Reed, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Berthelette, thank you for being with us today.
Mr. Ferguson, unlike you and Mr. Shipley, I just buy vehicles in the hope that they last as long as possible. I'm not optimistic about these things. I'm thinking 10 or 12 years. I know some of my colleagues haven't even ever purchased a vehicle, which leads to my question.
Wouldn't it be a problem if the government decided to purchase fighter jets in the same way that it buys its vehicles, since everybody approaches these things differently? Secondary to that, aren't there well-established processes already in existence that governments are supposed to follow for these purposes?