I just want to say that I appreciated the conversation in the first hour about removing some of the politics, because we know what some of the challenges are in terms of moving forward with decisions and risk aversion.
Mr. Shimooka, you said this is sometimes a decades-long process or that it will be a decades-long process to get where we need to be. Mr. Lagassé, you talked about trade-offs.
At the beginning of this study, we heard from ADM Wendy Hadwen. She said that we are not in peacetime and that we don't have time for the usual silos. That was a bit shocking to me, and I think it's probably a little bit shocking to most Canadians to hear that.
There's an urgency to get things right and to move quickly, so how do we approach the defence industrial strategy from an immediate, a medium-term and a long-term perspective?
To really map out what our strategy needs to be is going to take some time. We've had very eloquent witnesses talk to us about all the criteria and how we're going need to set this all out. We could spend five years getting to the right model, and we will have missed the moment.
In a minute each, can you help me understand how we can plan and prioritize and how we can maximize the domestic capability that exists and how we develop it going forward? Something like extracting and using critical minerals is not done overnight. Some things need to happen overnight, literally, and others will take place in the medium and long term.
Can you want to tell us some paths to financing that? I'm going to ask you to be quick, because I do have a follow-up question in terms of where ethics fits into these frameworks.