Stephen Fuhr

Defence procurement involves complex contracts and negotiations with some of the world’s largest companies.

There will be ministerial oversight. That's written in.

This bill builds on that work already underway and it gives the agency the authority and flexibility it needs to meet the challenge.

Canada’s approach to defence procurement must deliver more than military equipment. It must defend Canadians while strengthening our economy, growing Canadian industrial capacity and opening new opportunities for Canadian companies to…

Are the requirements important? Of course they are. It's not the only thing that needs to be considered here.

There's gonna be trade-offs everywhere.

That evidence better actually bring something to the table and be credible.

Many of our allies … run a mixed fleet with fighters.

We are going to become less reliant and more resilient.

I'm not afraid to stand out on the hill by myself.

I think there is [a world in which we can operate with less ITAR restrictions].

So working with others who want to work with us and add value to what we're doing, I think we're carefully considering that a lot more.

We're on the receiving end of this change, and it's our job to look for new opportunities and pivot as fast as we can to meet the moment, and never put ourselves back in this position again.

I think that would be a very difficult thing to do, especially after this last week. I think that people would not be happy about that.

I can’t honestly think of a better divestiture. There’s jobs in the aerospace industry. We desperately need more firefighting capacity pretty much everywhere … whether it be Canada, Europe, Australia, the U.S. You can’t have too many of…

Everybody's pushing to get these airplanes moved from where they are now to the end user.

We don't want to hang on to these things any longer than we have to. They cost money just sitting there. They're needed doing the firefighting role.

There's jobs in the aerospace industry. We desperately need more firefighting capacity pretty much everywhere ... whether it be Canada, Europe, Australia, the U.S. You can't have too many of these assets.

I can't honestly think of a better divestiture.

Canada’s got great capability and capacity that I think we’ve largely ignored over the years, and we’re not in a position to do that anymore, so we’re not going to do it.

We’re a sovereign country and we make our own decisions. And they’re thoughtful decisions.

We’ll go from two qualified suppliers to a preferred supplier, and the government of Canada will enter into contract negotiations with the preferred supplier so we can turn lots of MOUs and promises into tangible outcomes for Canada.

Submarines are a massive deterrent. Any kind of top-tier military on the planet has a submarine capability.

This project is part of a broader effort to build an integrated Arctic surveillance and communications network that will strengthen Canada's ability to monitor, understand and respond to activity in the Arctic.