We wrote a report last year on the marine industrial sector, and in that report we expressed our support for an allocated long-term production schedule to rebuild Canada's naval fleet and coast guard fleet. We did so out of recognition that we have a national shipbuilding policy. We also have a marine industry, and to the extent that Canada is building ships in Canada, we get to trigger a supply chain of perhaps 700 or 800 companies in the marine sector that can help to fit those vessels out from the yards. It will be important to us to see how the government responds when it comes forward with its first rebuild of ships, to see the connections they have made between the shipyard--the production of the hull--and the fitting out of that hull with the sophisticated high-tech weapons systems and communications systems that are really the value added to the modern complex naval vessel.
CADSI's view is that both are required in order to ensure a viable industrial defence base in this country, and there is real capability and real capacity resident in Canada to assist in those areas.