Madam Speaker, I covered this last week. With respect to all the major investment we are going to be undertaking, we have undertaken and will continue to undertake, it is a massive amount of taxpayer dollars, and obviously we have to be responsible for that.
I want to untie Canadian economic benefit and Canadian companies, because oftentimes we confuse those. Economic benefit to Canada can mean a number of things. Foreign direct investment in Canada is at a 23-year high. It is very important. There are big companies from other countries that do direct work in Canada. I could name a whole bunch of them. Bell Textron is one, and there is Airbus, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. They employ thousands of people. They engineer here, retain IP here and have headquarters here. These companies matter to Canada as well. As long as they continue to invest in Canada, we will continue to support them where it makes sense.
There are a lot of things that go into the bucket when we have to consider what we are going to buy. Military requirements are very important, but there is also cost, risk, timeline and defence industrial strategy. There are also a whole bunch of subcomponents. These are all things the government needs to consider to make the best option choice.