Could I make a quick comment?
I would say that one shortcoming of the existing procurement process in regard to sovereign production is that in many cases we've actually funded systems with capabilities through the lowest technology readiness level, to the point where it's almost mature and ready to go, and we've actually forced them to go into a competition against a foreign manufacturer. We've developed them through DRDC or various investment funds and the systems are ready to go. There are examples like the high-frequency surface search radar, which is several years back now. It's one example where we had a capability in Canada to do so.
The existing procurement rules, which are changing, have actually made it much more difficult for Canadian industries to actually compete within our own procurement system. I agree a hundred per cent with my colleague's points here. I think that in some ways we've actually gone too far in some of these areas.
