I think the problem with the Halifax was not its initial purchase—although that took a while—but its mid-life refits and its replacement.
You wanted two examples of projects that worked well. One was the C-17, which is the strategic airlift. There were not many alternatives. We bought it through foreign military sales. We wrote the United States a cheque and they delivered the aircraft.
The other one may be slightly more controversial, but Mr. Harper's government waived all the rules to have the supply ship Asterix constructed. It was delivered on time and on budget, and it's an example, I think, of when the rules were appropriately suspended because the military was convinced we needed a supply ship then, not later.