Mr. Speaker, I had the pleasure of sitting with my colleague briefly on the committee in late summer regarding this particular issue.
One of the witnesses he mentioned briefly was one of the potential competitors in what was supposed to be an open competition, as purported by the minister but later on that story changed. It quickly changed from “Yes, there will be a competition” to “Oh, but there was a competition”, and in the time between the two, it did not really happen.
I would like him to comment on some of the testimony that stuck in his mind regarding the potential of competition and some of the other manufacturers who came to the committee.