Mr. Speaker, the capability gap was created in collaboration with lobbyists.
Since February, Boeing had 10 meetings with senior political staff. More than half of those meetings were with the senior policy adviser to the Minister of National Defence and the Prime Minister. That many meetings with the same group smells fishy to me.
The government claimed to want to be open and transparent, but did it rig the process to replace our CF-18s to help Boeing jump the queue?