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 these assets.
Discussing the sale of retired aircraft for firefighting.
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