I'll just build on a point that my colleague Mr. Shimooka made in his answer to the earlier question as well.
If you really want to work with Canadian companies, you need to work with them from the beginning if you want to develop your own capacity to do something specifically tailored to your forces' requirements.
We currently have a program—I think you've heard of it before—called IDEaS. We develop the capability with Canadian companies, yet there's no contracting mechanism for the government to then actually acquire the capability.
It's these types of things. If we don't address such simple things like that, which our allies do as a matter of course, then we are falling behind.
We do have contracting regulations and we have other programs in place, but I would say that the main thing is this: What we can do to ensure the Canadian Armed Forces are able to work with Canadian industries to develop the capabilities they need and then give them the authority and ability to buy it quickly?
We don't have that right now. That is really arguably the most important thing. If you want to support Canadian industry and SMEs, they need to know that they have a buyer.
