Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I really do appreciate the conversation and the responses we've heard today. Thank you very much for your testimony.
Besides increasing the naval capacity of Canada, some of the parallel goals or aims of the national shipbuilding strategy are to restore shipbuilding to rebuild the marine industry, the blue economy in some sense, and to create jobs as well. We see that in our community, in our region, with a company called Hike Metal, which is a small shipbuilder and supplier out of Wheatley, not too far from Windsor.
Other than distributing economic benefits to different regions, do you see other advantages for increasing the number of shipyards with the capacity to build, for example, icebreakers and other ships?