First, I don't know whether the ADM—I assume it was Hadwen—expressed that they have been working on the defence industrial strategy for almost 12 months now. I would argue the sense of urgency has been happening for almost over a year and, I would assume, given there have been many interventions to ask for information, they would be in a position where they could at least launch some elements of a defence industrial strategy, whether it was fully baked or not, at this particular point in time.
I also think we have procurements that are already within pipelines for which we have companies that are sovereign and are supplying goods and services to the Department of National Defence or that can be put under contract in a very quick period of time. A good example would be that we have companies that are already supplying things, whether they be ships or munitions, that are generally recognized as sovereign capabilities. I don't think we need new contract vehicles to be able to turn on the juice and start preparing ourselves for expediting contracts through vehicles that are already there.
That's one way you could start, by quick-hitting many procurements that are in the pipeline and then looking to the future—10 years, 20 years—as to how you would sustain this pipeline for the volume of spending that we're going to get, which you have to keep cueing up because the volume is going to far surpass anything we've seen in recent history.
