Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not know if I heard the Minister indicate to me that there was an analysis of what companies in the North had the capacity to bid on the water bomber contract. I do not believe you can just do a phone call kind of survey. Nobody is going to have a water bomber sitting on their tarmac waiting for a contract. However, if the contract was available in the form of public tender, I am sure they would have got it.

I would like to ask the Minister if he could tell me then if Buffalo Airways had water bombers when they bid on the contract seven years ago, or did they buy them after the fact?