National Defence committee  Many of the companies we deal with in the aerospace sector have a foothold in Canada but are not Canadian companies. They want the work. I would suggest to you that they're not as determined as we are, and as we around this table should be, to create Canadian jobs. That's why we

National Defence committee  There are clearly going to be benefits. The F-35 is a huge contract. We don't buy the argument that there can't be IRBs as a part of the initial framework. We just don't buy the argument that somehow it has to be one or the other. We're being told that we can bid on $12 billion

National Defence committee  My name is Jerry Dias. I am the assistant to the national president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union. Thank you for inviting the CAW here today. I am flanked by our director of the aerospace department, Dawn Cartwright, and Roland Kiehne, who is the president of Local 112 in D