That part of the shipbuilding strategy—building a national sovereign asset and source of supply—shouldn't be lost here. One of your counterparts asked earlier about Canada buying Javelins. As we've seen with the conflict in Ukraine, the degree of your national industry significantly limits the options available to your government.
We are in the process of building a national shipbuilding sector that could build ships for us or potentially other people in the future. We underplay the potential advantage to Canada of developing exactly this type of industrial capacity.
I'll take a quick moment to respond to some of the things Alan said. I agree with the part where he said people would have a different view about lots of that. I fully disagree with lots of aspects about how he has characterized the arrangement, but I totally agree about the lack of transparency and the fact that we should be able to argue about this based on an understanding and articulation from government about how they think these arrangements for shipbuilding and for CSC, and more broadly the relationship with the shipyards, are supposed to work.
This includes what status will exist between Canada and the respective shipyards—particularly as we move to having potentially three of them—and how the relationships between the government and the yards and all the companies working below them are supposed to work, because I don't think we've heard enough of that articulated so far.