The observation I've made is that in the United States--this is true around the world, but especially in the United States--they've managed to grow defence industries in the proximity of their military bases. They recognize the synergy and the cost savings involved in servicing the different pieces of equipment.
We have that to a certain degree. We have Med-Eng, which makes the bomb protection suits. They're in Pembroke, maybe 30 miles away from the base. Those bomb suits were in the movie The Hurt Locker. We have the frag vests that our committee members wear when we visit Afghanistan. Even Bubble Technologies, the world's leader in radiation detection, was more of a function of having the national research universal reactor close by, and its scientists.
What is Canada not doing that we're not growing industries to the same extent? After all, industry is jobs, and jobs are the currency of this decade at least.