Madam Chair, I am happy to begin the evening's activities by using my time to ask questions. We have a lot of questions and I will not be speechifying.
I would like to start by asking the minister if he could deal with the section of the Auditor General's most recent report on the F-35s. In paragraph 2.54 of the report, it states that in 2008 the minister's department took an options analysis of three contending aircraft for the replacement of the F-18, based against high level mandatory capabilities and concluded that all three of the aircraft that were tested met the high level mandatory capabilities.
Could the minister confirm that this was the case and tell us what the other two aircraft were, because I understand the F-35 was one of the three?