Mr. Speaker, all my best to the member's grandfather.
It is a valid point about the future direction of this. Again, I can speak to search and rescue because I have dealt with this for quite some time. I am no search and rescue expert, but nonetheless I have been exposed to search and rescue operations quite a bit.
I assume that right now the government is going back and forth about the requirements of what is to be fixed-wing search and rescue. There is no doubt that the Hercules and the Buffalo need to be replaced, whether it is with the C-130J or some other variant of that is one thing. Let us take a look at that issue for a moment. There does not seem to be any Canadian companies in contention for that. From what I understand, some Canadian companies are capable of providing that. At least that is what they say. Obviously the companies are going to talk about themselves in a way not to rule themselves out.
When it comes to military requirement, it seems to me that the search and rescue piece on fixed-wing seems to be going through many rigours and many processes until they find out what is required for fixed-wing search and rescue.
I am not so sure if this is happening with the F-35s. I fear that the long-term requirements are dictated to us, and that is what concerns me about this. It is not overt in the sense that we have to buy off the shelf, but nonetheless if we are part of a global supply chain—