Madam Speaker, I am delighted that the hon. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry put that question. I must tell the House that we did not consult before.
The best example I can give him is the announcement made a week ago last Wednesday by the Minister of National Defence with respect to the acquisition of the capability for 15 search and rescue helicopters.
It allows the aerospace industry to be totally flexible in the way it goes about responding to this request. It can either provide helicopters by saying that it thinks those are the ones that are the best, and if it is assessed, that is the way it goes or the Canadian companies can say that they will lease helicopters. Having leased or bought them, the maintenance of the helicopters can be contracted out using the aerospace industry in a manner that perhaps was not conceived before and the inflexibility of this cumbersome system that I described in my presentation did not allow. More flexibility means more efficiency and better use of Canada's considerable aerospace industry.