Thank you, sir.
I'm going to switch to Professor Lagassé.
Currently in defence manufacturing, Canada has approximately 600 suppliers. With respect to the industrial ecosystem that goes along with defence capabilities, how can we, as a government, leverage these regional strengths where they're all located?
You mentioned the Poseidon, in Richmond, British Columbia. Boeing has been there for 100 years. A lot of the IT and analytics around the Poseidon aircraft are being handled in my hometown.
Could you talk a bit about what we need to do to support our SMEs versus larger multinationals?
