Further to that, in order to get that longer season, both at the start of the season and at the end of the season...and we're talking about three months in total, about a month and a half at either end. That's the time period we're looking at in terms of a mission for that particular vessel. That requires a higher ice class in order for the vessel to actually operate in different areas and farther out than our present fleet can. That's another aspect that's important for the vessel to be able to go farther out into our Arctic domain.
In terms of your question on marine security, or the surveillance aspect of it, one thing we were very good at doing in this particular case was working with all of the marine security partners. Because of the idea—as we have outlined all the way through our testimony here—of the support element that our Coast Guard performs within our mandate, we worked with all our security partners, whether it was RCMP or whether it was Canadian Armed Forces, to outline what their requirements were for this type of vessel in the Arctic. Just as an example of one of the ideas, a very complex operation centre is on board the vessel, which will supply the partners with the communications ability, the surveillance capability, that they need and that they had outlined for us in terms of the requirements on the vessel.
That's how we built capability into the vessel.