I see your point. I am not a shipbuilding expert, so I can't speak to the capabilities of the various shipyards. All I can do is look at things, as I always do, through a very comparative lens.
What I see is other advanced democracies realizing that they have strengths and they have weaknesses. When Great Britain, which used to be known as the naval power on the planet, is outsourcing its shipbuilding to other countries to get more capable and less expensive ships, I have to wonder about the Canadian choices, because Canada has not been in the business of building naval ships over the past 20 or 30 years—I forget the exact range of time. Starting up from scratch means it will be more expensive, and that means that we will have Canadians being employed by these programs, but we'll have less capability. So we have to face that trade-off. If we have less capability, then we have to shrink the size of our navy.
I have a big problem with the entire shipbuilding process, not so much with where in Canada they chose but with the actual choice of not buying necessarily the best equipment, because what makes sense for politics and what makes sense for Canadian defence are not necessarily identical.