Mr. Speaker, as my colleague said, it looks like the same comedy of errors is playing itself out again on this F-35 file.
The Minister of National Defence at the time used to claim, “Yes, we have seen the competition. We did a competition for the F-35s”. It turned out that no, actually, the Conservatives did not. The Americans did it for them in 2001, and they just accepted it.
Can the Conservatives tell us if they actually conducted a real competition this time, and that it has taken place, and whether, yet again, Canadians, having no guaranteed contract for Canadian companies, really believe it is a great deal for the Canadian public across this country?