Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about the traditional way of procurement. I am reading the Auditor General's report about costs, about life cycle costs and how these are managed. One of the issues the Auditor General brings up with the medium to heavy lift helicopters is that some of the costs have escalated.
Getting back to the fighter jet, we have also heard from other countries, such as Australia, that the costs are escalating.
She talked about the fact that it was the cheapest plane available, but I am not sure if we know that yet. I would like the minister to clarify the position about these life cycle costs and how confident the government is that these cost overruns will not end up like what the Auditor General has said about medium to heavy lift helicopters.
When the minister talks about procurement and guarantees, I am not sure if we are entering a new realm of what is actually guaranteed or not, and I appreciate the work that is being done. According to an article by the European Union about Israel, it says it has guarantees of the installation of Israeli systems for the first batch of planes to be delivered. There is an agreement to put in $4 billion worth of Israeli systems—