Thank you.
I'm going to go back to Mr. Williams.
I really appreciate your comments. You talked about the different things that are contributing to the cost of the Canadian surface combatant: ship design costs, developmental systems, allowing industry to modify and expand the statement of requirements, the lack of budgetary controls, and devolving accountability for their procurement process to the private sector.
Can you speak about what other countries are doing to ensure they don't have this out-of-control cost? To what extent should industry be able to contribute to the statement of requirements for large defence procurement projects?