Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I listened carefully, and I heard more talk, more costs, more bureaucrats, more delays, but no ships in sight.
Ms. Campbell, I would like to come back to the horizontal engineering program plan. It's a nice complicated name. What the Canadian Coast Guard representative essentially said before the committee is that investments had to be made in the shipyard's capacity, operations had to be restarted and vessels had to be built.
Do you realize that there is a total contradiction between the program's spirit and the federal legislation that prohibits awarding two contracts and paying twice for the same thing? We put our trust in you, and the government is doing the same. You are responsible for delivering the strategy to us. You have the necessary expertise, and we have shipyards. We even have a 50% excess in capacity, in Canada. Shipyards are ready to build vessels and deliver them over the next few months.
What is happening? A bureaucratic empire is being built, dozens of millions of dollars are being lost and, ultimately, there are no ships. In addition, the time frames we are being given today are just as unrealistic as those we have been given in the past.