Thank you, Mr. Bezan.
For the air defence section, around seven years ago—probably eight now—we decommissioned our Iroquois class air defence destroyers and they provided that long range air defence capability that can attack aircraft well out to the horizon and beyond it.
Right now our Halifax-class frigates have been upgraded and do a very good job of defending themselves, but not so much the larger area around them. With the new CSCs, we are planning to equip them with a new phased-array radar, which essentially means that you can take them down for maintenance without actually turning them off. So in case they received any damage, you can repair them without becoming blind, unlike certain other ships like the French and Italian vessels that were offered to us earlier.
With this new radar technology, you can see further and more precisely what we're looking at, and then aim and direct the necessary missiles out through that long range distance. In co-operation with the F-35, with the plan to equip our ships with the so-called cooperative engagement capability, CEC, an F-35 can essentially become a forward sensor for the ship. So an F-35 can fly well out to the horizon and beyond and then relay what it sees back to the ship, telling the ship where to send its missiles. Even if a ship can't see over the horizon, it can shoot where the F-35 tells it to shoot.