If I could follow up with respect to that, I chaired the board of the Greater Halifax Partnership at that time, and our staff did a lot of work with respect to the spillover benefits that would extend not only to Nova Scotia but actually to other parts of Canada.
The chamber of commerce, of course, has a program called “Ships Rise Here”; the previous slogan was “Ships Start Here”, which is really focusing on what benefits the small and medium-sized enterprises in the region might get from this particular contract and then sorting out what those particular needs might be for skilled personnel. Of course, it's not only in the area of engineering and so on; it's a whole vast area, and we want to be part of that, and will be part of that.
Coming back to the other question you raised with respect to international students, the figure.... The chair was talking about trade. For international student recruitment and everything associated with it—parents coming and spending time dropping their kids off, coming for convocations and tourism and so on—DFAIT's estimate is over $8 billion a year. Certainly, this region is very, very significant, given our success in attracting international students.
I commend Minister Flaherty and Minister Fast for establishing that panel. The vision was to double international student enrollment. We're not going up to 60%, I can assure you, but right across the country.... The key part was for quality not to be lost. I do come back to that global competitive index, that we want do better even than being sixth in the world, but we also want our own Canadian students to benefit from study abroad, internships, co-op programs. I really see tremendous benefits in this region for our students, not only the faculty, to link into the various exporting firms and multinationals that we have, some of whom are based in Europe.