Stephen Fuhr: “Many of our allies … run a mixed fleet with fighters.”

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.

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.

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

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