Thank you very much.
I'm going to ask all witnesses to answer my questions.
This week at committee, a witness stated that the government wasn't necessarily making decisions about the national shipbuilding strategy, it was a shipyard in Eastern Canada imposing its views. The current situation of exploding costs and constant delivery delays is worrisome. We're in this situation due to what we've been experiencing for the past two years, the labour shortage and inflation associated with shipbuilding. That said, the steel cutting capacity of each of the yards probably has an impact as well.
Nevertheless, the witness's comments lifted the lid on another possible reason for the rising costs, and it doesn't appear to be in the interest of either the government or taxpayers. If this shipyard really does have the upper hand when it comes to decisions, as the witness said, could it also be influencing other yards in a positive or negative way?
What do you think of what the witness said this week?