I appreciate your attempt, Mr. Weiler, to try to accommodate our concerns, but even December 17 is not going to be realistic.
I've been working on this for five years. We could probably spend six months just looking at Irving, the shipyard, much less all of it. The Coast Guard stuff, the Atlantic Eagle issue with CITT, would take months on its own.
While I appreciate your attempt, it would be wasting our time and doing a disservice to everyone involved if we rushed it through in two months. We could easily do this for a full year. I think that was our discussion before prorogation. We were going to leave it until the end because it would take such a long, long time.
If you want to split it up to just to study the icebreaker—because there is the concern about the government outsourcing this from the country—perhaps something broken down like that.... However, to do the whole package by December is not possible. It's just not realistic.
Again, I appreciate your attempt to try accommodate our concerns, but we won't support this because the issue needs a full and proper review and, I think, agreement among all four parties on how we're going to do that.