I don't know if the costing has been done precisely, but I've certainly asked many people, including the coast guard, what it would take to provide these kinds of vessels.
One of the issues—and you'll will be very sensitive to this as someone from the Atlantic provinces—is whether we build these ships in Canada or whether we buy them off the shelf abroad. It will cost more and take longer to build them in Canada than it would be to buy them from Finland or from South Korea. That then gets into issues of timelines and priorities and the sense of urgency that we feel. Balance that against the fact that shipbuilding might be a very sensible part of an economic stimulus package.
These are issues that you and your colleagues will have to think hard about. But we don't need a Cadillac icebreaker like the Diefenbaker being built today, although I sure wish we had built the Polar 8 back in the 1980s, which, had it been built, would have been at the peak of its performance right now and would have given us that 12-month-a-year capacity throughout the Arctic archipelago. That would have made a very strong statement about our seriousness concerning Arctic sovereignty.