Thank you, sir, for your endorsement of a defence industrial strategy.
Our view is that there needs to be an industrial strategy aligned to the Canada First defence strategy and to international market opportunities. Some of the characteristics of that strategy are as we've identified: articulation of Canadian capabilities that hold a strategic and/or economic value for the country; an investment in those capabilities through R and D support, both government and industry; support to marketing efforts to include Canadian industry into the supply chain of major contractors; and the promotion of Canadian capability through our defence attachés and Department of Foreign Affairs, so that we are not just looking for foreign solutions as we try to meet our military requirements, but we are promoting world-class Canadian capability abroad.