Mr. Speaker, there was a competition and in fact it was the F-35 that emerged from that competition, and members opposite should know that. How was the process started? It was started under the previous government.
Let us look at what the current assistant deputy minister of materiel in charge of the program has to say. He says:
Let’s state the obvious: you must have more than one viable supplier to have a competition, and there is only one fifth-generation fighter available.
That is the one we are getting.