I believe that shipbuilding has a very strong possibility of survival, but the government really has to come to the table and make some hard decisions, and they have to do that very quickly. We've been trying since Minister Tobin structured the committee back in 2000, with a report coming down in 2001, saying that it was on the right track and that everybody was going in the right direction. We hit the wall with Finance, obviously, and what we really needed was structured financing, along with the ACCA and government procurement. We believe this industry would be viable today; we believe it would be moving forward.
This committee is going to finish up today and you'll go back to the House with whatever recommendations you come down with, but we believe this committee today has an opportunity to turn this industry around. We hope that today, as you make your decisions, you'll be able to do that.
The government to date has not come to the table to try to fix the industry and put it back on the right track, and we think that has to happen. Once the Conservative government came into power, everything changed, and it changed in a hurry. The committees that were struck and that were looking at the industry were dismantled. Labour was excluded from whatever talks were going on. Industry was there doing the best they could do, but nothing was moving in the right direction any more.