By and large, especially as far as commercial aircraft are concerned, you have to look outside. You have to develop a product that will sell on the open market outside, especially the United States. If you get American airlines to buy your product, you're halfway there, because they are the main market in terms of aerospace and airliners. Other projects as far as the military.... That was a problem in a way in the 1950s, when it was thought that if the government buys aircraft, you design the aircraft, the air force buys them, and you've done your job. In terms of exports, you try, but very often the products were so specialized for Canadian requirements that they couldn't sell overseas. That's a problem. The idea is to export. You have to develop something that is either so simple, like a utility airplane that everyone buys, or something that is so new and revolutionary, like a regional jet, that everyone will want it, too.
On May 3rd, 2012. See this statement in context.