I'd like to come back to the question of ships, and in particular, how many of them you can buy for a given amount of money. I know this has been a matter of controversy.
First we were told the inflation rate was really low and then we were told there wasn't any inflation, which has a huge impact when you're talking about 20 to 25 years. I know from my time at Defence that the military has a strong tendency to lowball procurement costs, and I suspect that hasn't changed.
Most recently, I think last month, defence minister Peter MacKay was asked how many Arctic offshore patrol vessels could be bought with the money we had, and he said he didn't know. Approximately how many Arctic offshore patrol vessels can we buy with the money we have?