In the previous session, Professor Leuprecht pointed out that we have a national security strategy. That is a critical starting point to identify what's required, and we can have a line through to what we need to do to achieve that base.
One of the biggest changes I think you're seeing in the U.S. and our allies, especially since 2022, is that they realized that our stockpiles of munitions and other consumables required for war were far too low. They've spent tens of billions of dollars to develop the capacity to produce more systems if it comes to a point where we have a warfighting environment.
In Canada, we haven't done that. We've tried a little bit, but recently it was announced that we are able to produce 5,000 155mm shells in Canada.... That's one day of operations in Ukraine. That's insufficient for the requirements.
If we have a national security strategy, we have a line through to what's required on the defence industrial side. That's what's required.