National Defence committee  I go to Fort Worth almost every month.

National Defence committee  Meetings are held regularly. The suppliers are invited to take part in meetings with Lockheed Martin. They inform us of the status of the programs. Obviously, we move in those circles. What you have just shown me is not really a surprise. We are aware of this and are following it

National Defence committee  The Quebec region, and the Montreal region, make up more than 50% of the industry. It's also a very competitive industry. Since Quebec is competitive, it is going to win its fair share of contracts. In my opinion, we also need to understand that some major contractors in Quebec,

National Defence committee  I know of several. CMC is there. Our company is there.

National Defence committee  CAE, Pratt & Whitney, we could go on. There are a number of them in Quebec. I don't think that I can list all of them for you today.

National Defence committee  There are suppliers, too.

National Defence committee  We have the chance here to join a program that will include more than 3,000 airplanes. So we can build products for 3,000 airplanes. As a regular IRB, if we buy 65 airplanes our offset obligation will normally be that we will get work for 65 airplanes. We are a competitive comp

National Defence committee  As I said, the program is still at a very low rate of production. We're building around 30 aircraft a year. At some point this program will ramp up to more than 200 airplanes a year. So there's still time now to join the supply chain to become a second source, or even replace cer

National Defence committee  As I said earlier, we estimate at this point that over 20 years this will create and sustain around 2,500 jobs. We have proposals in now such that we believe if we do get this work we could double that.

National Defence committee  Probably around 40.

National Defence committee  Yes, today. That 2,500 would mean about 125 of our employees per year. So today it's around 40.

National Defence committee  The consequences are that other countries that are part of the team, the other nations that have joined, will get our work. Today and every day we're fighting against the Italians, the Turks, and the Dutch. Every country is trying to get a piece of this action.

National Defence committee  We have people there too.

National Defence committee  Sure.

National Defence committee  We are preparing for the future because sustainment comes after. We are Canada's source of excellence to repair the landing gear of all the airplanes. We repair the C-130J, the P-3 helicopters. We are well known for our service business. So for us it's very important. Eventually