One thing that we have improved or that at least has the potential to improve the procurement process is the government's proposal for a defence analytics institute in which you have experts who are not currently employed by the government—I think—to provide outside analysis of the various plans.
One of my greatest fears about Canada is about its becoming too much like the United States in one particular way, which is this. One of the worst things that happens in United States defence procurement is that every system is built in something like 400 congressional districts and 50 states, which then creates the political impetus for not killing programs.
Right now we have the shipbuilding programs, which seem to be designed more as job creation for Vancouver and Halifax than for building good ships. I'm not saying that those shipyards are not capable of doing it, but all estimates I've seen thus far suggest that we will get one ship for what the British are to get four times as many ships for.