In terms how we plan, there's some low-hanging fruit that we can immediately seize on. The current government has pledged to buy a Canadian AEWC plane, for instance. That would be a way to invest massively in the domestic aerospace industry. There are talks under way to increase production in Montreal of various other capabilities. The budget indicated that there's an ambition to try to replicate the shipbuilding success in the aerospace sector. As well, there is seed funding from the Business Development Bank of Canada that will be going to start-ups and SMEs and other things to get things going.
Very quickly, I think the reality is that you have to make choices between what you are going to be buying in 10 years and what are you going to be buying in the next few years. I think we have a good idea of that, but to Mr. Shimooka's point, we also need the government to release its national security strategy and a follow-on defence policy to provide guidance to the forces so that they can start planning their requirements for some of these things.
In the absence of requirements, industry will not invest. They need to know that there is a buyer. You cannot just build things without a buyer, and you need policy to indicate that there is a buyer.
