That's a very good answer, particularly your concern for how we're going to pay for this.
You and I spoke to one another just before the start of this meeting and you mentioned Saint John Shipbuilding— at one time it was located in the port—and the boom and the bust; the cost to the government to ramp up shipbuilding in the 1980s and then ramp it down. The company at the time said they were done. There is the cost to ramp it up and of course there is the cost to ramp it down. Can you talk about that a little more because that's important?
As a government I do want to press the navy and the forces as well as other departments to get value for taxpayers at the end of the day. The idea that there won't be that oversight I think is perhaps lost on the opposition in committee and to me it's important. When I see how procurement has been done in the past on shipbuilding in particular, my view is doing it this way is the right way to do it. Over 25 years, it's a generation of work, and we hopefully will avoid that boom and bust.
Could you talk a little more about that because I think it's a very good point?