I haven't seen that report. I haven't been privy to it.
I can say, being involved with the Canadian Coast Guard for approximately 23 years, that your comments are well taken with regard to the cuts. Our union approached government in the nineties to help assist integration of two services that operated within the Coast Guard to save that $15 million a year. Unfortunately, last time around it didn't happen. Some decisions were made that ultimately placed at risk the sustainability of the program in the coming five years or so with regard to staffing.
As far as the shipbuilding program goes, those aren't our officers, but the focus has always been on the building of ships in the national shipbuilding program. However, it's the operational nature, the long-term sustainable funding, to have those ships obviously at sea. For our officers, it's being able to continue to build capacity within the system at our national headquarters in Ottawa to be able to carry out effective project management and look at technologies. We're so short-staffed in our national headquarters that they're bringing back two retired managers to look at the new technologies. That's how desperate things have become.