The boom-bust cycle exists in both the private and public sectors when you're building ships. Perhaps it's more likely to be exaggerated in the public sector because we do build specialty vessels. We may be looking for military off the shelf, but military off the shelf is not commercial off the shelf. When you build a science vessel for Canadian waters, the requirements for that vessel are going to be different from a science vessel that's plying Caribbean waters, just to take an extreme example.
In a very real example, our science requirements are actually quite different even from the American vessels that are built. When you have all of that upfront engineering work to be done, the challenge is to know your requirements, ensure your engineering achieves those requirements, and that you don't let your requirements creep up. You don't let your ship become bespoke rather than the workhorse that you need.
The HEPP contract helps us smooth out the bumps and drops that all that engineering work would naturally create when you go from a small run of offshore fisheries to oceanographic ships to JSS to a polar. You could have a big spike in work and a big drop because of the front end work that has to be done. This is meant to smooth that out.