Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To our witnesses, thanks very much to all of you for being here today.
Especially, thank you to Minister Anand for joining us again today. This must be setting a record for the number of times a minister has appeared before committee in this amount of time, and in a pandemic no less, when I know you're working around the clock to procure PPE and of course vaccines in the most competitive market imaginable.
I want to switch topics a bit and start with a very west coast question. I'm proud to have a Seaspan shipyard within only a few minutes of my riding. I have many constituents who work there. I know they're doing some great work on various projects as part of the national shipbuilding strategy, and they are not shy about telling me about that. We also had the opportunity to see it in person last year.
Minister, please update us on the NSS, the work that's being done at Seaspan and the importance of the shipbuilding industry to our blue economy.