That's a very good question. I would offer some insights and suggestions.
When we're looking at the notion of a defence industrial strategy that will eventually lead to a policy, we need to think of it as being set within a national industrial strategy. When we talk about dual-use companies, a lot of companies are producing.... Actually, I would even go on to say that it's tri-use. What I mean by tri-use is consumer and commercial, defence, and national security. It's dual use, but in my opinion, there are actually three things, because consumer and commercial are grouped together and then you have defence and national security on that side.
I think the government just needs to make a conscious decision to create what was created many decades ago—that is, Ontario does autos, for example, and specializes in the Ontario area for that for the purposes of concentration, scale and the ecosystem. That was many decades ago. Aerospace in Montreal, for example, was an architecture that was envisioned many decades ago as well.
I think what we are talking about today is more about ecosystems. How do we create ecosystems that create a portfolio of capabilities and then have regional distribution? Instead of making a widget that somehow gets sent to the other side of the country, we may want to think about a portfolio of capabilities that can be applied to a national security and defence export orientation.
I think we're ultimately creating a community of companies and entrepreneurs and a new culture of co-operation with the government and maybe lenders or others, in a new way, but we have to think about a portfolio of capabilities. It's okay if there's a portfolio of capabilities within British Columbia and a completely similar-looking portfolio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for example, but some of those portfolios might be different.
You might have some space capabilities in there. Some could be cyber and some maritime, and some could be other types of advanced manufacturing. When the government is looking at this and saying that it needs a capability for a future concept of operation and asking where it can go, if I have a portfolio of capabilities, it's easy to send out a group email and then get some feedback. That's just a straightforward suggestion.