It's true; and again, it's not unique to Canada.
In the simplest of forms, time is money. Not every company has a bankroll sitting there to invest. There is a cost of money, the same as there would be if we went to mortgage our house. If you have a cost of money extended over a long period of time, you very quickly erode your potential profit. So you start off in the hole, and it doesn't get any better.
If you keep that in the back of your mind, when we look at value-added versus non-value-added of a process--a procurement process in this discussion--no one in industry or the government would ever want to throw out a piece of process that delivers value.
We get to see, from our perspective, the commercial process versus the government process. We could be building the same satellite for a different customer, the same risk parameters, technical risks, financial risks, performance risks, and so on, and yet the process costs of doing that in the commercial world will be considerably less than the process costs of doing it in the government world. That's what you keep hearing. We have this experience in the private sector, where we deal among ourselves all the time, so the process is much more efficient.
Now, what we don't have, in fairness to the government, is the accountability to the voting public. What's the price? What's the delta?