There's not a huge amount of shipbuilding capability in Canada. In fact, what led to the NSPS was the knowledge that having the one-off approach for the big projects wasn't going to lead us to a productive environment where we could deliver ships with low risk and the kinds of ships we needed.
There is an investment that has to be made in the capability of the yard. It's not just the infrastructure of the yard, but also their intellectual property, how they build ships, which both Irving and Vancouver Shipyards are making now to handle these large complex projects.
Our smaller vessels are relatively more simple in terms of construction. They're good projects for smaller yards to get involved in. The don't have to have the complex systems. Breaking them down in terms of the 1,000-tonne large-small vessel made sense to us.
We need to have a consistent supply, and here's a perfect example. We have about three dozen large vessels in the Canadian Coast Guard fleet. If we built a ship every year to replace those vessels, we would never lower the average age of that fleet.