Mr. Speaker, the hon. member forgets that, a few years ago, the previous government awarded a contract worth more than $1 billion to Bell Helicopter, in Mirabel, to build helicopters for the Canadian army. This was a major contract for 100 helicopters. But that is something he failed to mention in the House.
Quebec has a large part of the aerospace industry. Bell Helicopter has received the world product mandate for the construction of certain types of helicopters it is now delivering to the Canadian army. It was because of the government's decision-perhaps this is one of the few things the previous government did correctly-that Bell Helicopter company was able to get the world product mandate and bring jobs to Canada, to Quebec, for the making of these helicopters to serve Bell's worldwide market.
The hon. member conveniently forgets that, when he criticizes the announcement I made on Wednesday.