The government has been clear that there will be a $9 billion acquisition envelope. At the time of the decision in 2010, we put forward for approval a $5.7 billion envelope estimate for in-service support and sustainment. We acknowledged that we expected the operating costs to be similar to those of the F-18, on the order of $10 billion over 20 years. The affordability within our budget would be checked off in much greater detail when those documents cleared cabinet and finally got to Treasury Board, which they haven't done yet. This will ensure that those estimates are affordable within our base budget, which comes back to Parliament every year in the appropriations process.
On May 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.