Thank you very much.
Thank you to all three witnesses. I think you've all been very informative, and I think Professor Leuprecht in particular has brought out the inherent tension that exists between different demands that are put on our procurement process. There's a desire to do things fast, but the faster you do things, the greater the risk that you don't do things competently and coherently and with a rigorous assessment process. There's a desire to do things cheaply, but if you do things cheaply, then you can't be insisting on Canadian content and Canadian jobs being created and doing things here when you could buy something off the shelf from abroad more cheaply.
A lot of the constraints that are being complained about today are ones that are actually being imposed on us by going through these models. For example, in the case of creating jobs in Canada, I'm sure there's a way of dealing with the ships that wouldn't have created as many thousands of jobs in Canada but would have procured off-the-shelf ships more quickly.
I was just wondering, Professor Leuprecht and Mr. Perry, if you could each perhaps comment on that, because I think that's what I'm most getting out of today.