Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
To start, I have to say again that I entirely disagree with this concept that the national shipbuilding strategy is an abject failure. One of the things that it has done is create approximately 20,000 well-paying jobs in Canada. It is ensuring that we have the ability in Canada to build ships that we need, especially in light of times when we see that sometimes other countries will not put our needs before theirs and deliver ships to us. It's a bit frustrating hearing criticisms that I think in some cases are unwarranted.
We started from scratch. We had not built ships for government, the navy or the Coast Guard in a very long time. We're getting up to the pace of other shipyards that have been constructing for decades—in the case of the U.K., hundreds of years—without stop.
I'd like to ask Ms. Sampson if she believes that Canadian shipyards, as we get up to gear, can be as productive and can have workers who deliver on time and on budget just as well as shipyards in other countries.