Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
In 2016 the government changed the policy requirement of how it wanted National Defence to meet its NORAD and NATO commitments.
In the past, National Defence had risk-managed between NORAD and NATO. In 2016 the government changed the requirement. It asked National Defence to meet NORAD at its highest level, and also to meet its NATO commitments at the same time.
That did create a gap. That meant that National Defence had to increase its production of aircraft by 23%. The gap, however—