National Defence committee  I'm sorry.

National Defence committee  It is the next generation we need, whether it be the JSF, the F-35, the F-22--whichever one of those aircraft is not necessarily.... I'll talk like my brother over here. It's not necessarily up to us; we're not the experts. The Canadian government and the Canadian military know w

National Defence committee  They're confident because in the MOU it doesn't state that those companies, if they obtain contracts here, can't move them after.... That's what I believe. If I'm an employer and I'm manufacturing a part in a machine shop, and I can manufacture it here for $25 or I can manufactur

National Defence committee  We are talking about roughly 2,000, if I am not mistaken.

National Defence committee  The example I'm going to use is Bombardier. It used to use companies like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build parts of their planes--subcontract. They actually still use other companies, but that's one clear example. When Boeing ramped up its production levels, Mitsubishi Heavy

National Defence committee  Correct. If you look at my opening statement...I have a hard time seeing the American government giving away their space program, or giving away that technology, or something like that; they wouldn't have developed a bunch of things around it. Well, I believe that with that new

National Defence committee  That's only if we are paying contracts?

National Defence committee  Canadian companies probably have a difficult time coming up here and stating certain things against McDonnell Douglas, against the Boeing corporation, or against these companies, because by doing that, they're reducing their chances of obtaining any work. I don't have those conce

National Defence committee  There are actually two things that are guaranteed: you're eventually going to die and you're always going to pay taxes.

National Defence committee  I couldn't tell you, sir. I don't know.

National Defence committee  It does.

National Defence committee  So they're giving us access--

National Defence committee  Okay.

National Defence committee  Sir, I'm not here to say whether it was a good idea or not to be part of it, and to invest money there, whether it gave us access or not. What I'm here to state--and I know you'd like a clear-cut answer, yes or no--is that pretty much what should be included in the memorandum of

National Defence committee  If we have the opportunity to get much more and it's guaranteed, that's good.