Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The item in the chapter that speaks to that is that, in 2008, National Defence, themselves, said it would be exceedingly difficult to hold a fair competition that includes the F-35. That's why we were concerned, in the chapter, that many things were taken out of sequence and proper analysis wasn't done when it needed to have been done. It was simply because each step along the way was leading more and more toward the F-35. That's also why we felt Public Works needed to have been brought in to this whole exercise, before 2010, in order to sort out what the proper procurement strategy should be.
We were concerned that the various stages along the way were leading more and more toward the acquisition of the F-35, and there needed to have been more due diligence applied throughout that process.