# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001173382
**File Stem:** 0001173382-23-000007
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001173382-23-000007

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230309

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** CAE INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001173382
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES [3690]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 000000000

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8585 COTE DE LIESSE
- **CITY:** ST-LAURENT
- **STATE:** A8
- **ZIP:** H4T 1G6
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 514-341-6780

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8585 COTE DE LIESSE
- **CITY:** ST-LAURENT
- **STATE:** A8
- **ZIP:** H4T 1G6

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8585 Côte-de-Liesse

PO Box 1800

Saint-Laurent, Québec

Canada H4L 4X4

Tel (514) 341-6780

Fax (514) 341-7699

www.cae.com

March 9, 2023

**<u>VIA EDGAR</u>**

**TO: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Securities and Exchange Commission**

**Division of Corporation Finance**

**Office of Manufacturing**

100 F Street, NE

Washington, D.C. 20549

United States

**ATT:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Dale Welcome

Ernest Greene

**RE: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CAE Inc.** 

**Form 40-F for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2022** 

**Filed June 23, 2022**

**File No. 001-31402**

Dear Sir, Madam:

We are responding to the comments from the Staff (the "**Staff**") of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Staff's letter to CAE Inc. (the "**Company**") dated February 27, 2023.

Set forth below are the Company's responses to the Staff's comments. For convenience, the Staff's comments are repeated below in italics, followed by the Company's response to each of them.

Please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned if you have any questions regarding this letter or if you require additional information.

Very truly yours,

**/s/ Sonya Branco**

Executive Vice President, Finance & CFO

T. 514-340-5393

E. sonya.branco@cae.com

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**RESPONSES TO THE STAFF'S LETTER DATED FEBRUARY 27, 2023**

*<u>Form 40-F for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2022</u>*

*<u>Management's Discussion and Analysis</u>*

*<u>4. Consolidated Results, page 22</u>*

*1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You disclosed that you continue to be affected by ongoing supply chain disruptions. Please revise MD&A in future filings to more fully address whether supply chain disruptions materially affect your outlook or business goals. Quantify and disclose, to the extent possible, how your revenues, profits, and/or liquidity have been impacted, and discuss known trends or uncertainties resulting from mitigation efforts undertaken, including whether any mitigation efforts introduce new material risks, including those related to product quality, reliability, or regulatory approval.*

<u>CAE Response:</u>

We acknowledge the Staff's comments regarding the disclosure surrounding our ongoing supply chain disruptions and we confirm to the Staff that we undertake, in future filings, to more fully address whether supply chain disruptions materially affect our outlook or business goals, including by quantifying and disclosing, to the extent possible, how our revenues, profits, and/or liquidity have been impacted, and by discussing known trends or uncertainties resulting from mitigation efforts undertaken, including whether any mitigation efforts introduce new material risks, including those related to product quality, reliability, or regulatory approval.

*<u>Consolidated Financial Statements</u>*

*<u>Note 3 - Business Combinations, page 24</u>*

*2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Please provide us with the significance test calculations of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X supporting your conclusion that L3Harris Technologies Military Training business' financial statements, pursuant to Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X, were not required to be presented.*

<u>CAE Response:</u>

*Regulation 51-102 respecting Continuous Disclosure Obligations* ("**NI 51-102**") promulgated by the *Autorité des marchés financiers*, the Company's principal securities regulatory authority in Canada, sets forth the applicable criteria for determining whether a transaction meets the significance tests that trigger additional disclosure requirements, including a Business Acquisition Report, under the Canadian securities regulations. NI 51-102 sets out three significance tests: an asset test, an investment test and a profit or loss test. For a TSX-listed issuer such as the Company, an acquisition triggers the additional disclosure requirements only if the acquisition satisfies 2 or more of these significance tests.

We confirm to the Staff that, in connection with the acquisition of the L3Harris Technologies' Military Training's business, the Company performed the analyses that are required under NI 51-102 and concluded that the acquisition did not satisfy 2 or more of the significance tests under NI 51-102 and that, as such, the filing of a Business Acquisition Report (which would have been filed on a Form 6-K in the United States) was not required.

Based on our understanding of the rules of the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System ("**MJDS**"), as confirmed by the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance, the separate financial reporting requirements of Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X do not apply to MJDS filings, such as the annual reports on Form 40-F of eligible Canadian registrants. Rather, the financial statements included in the MJDS filing must be compliant with the requirements under applicable Canadian regulations and disclosure requirements.

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