Yes, ma'am. That's my commander's business, to work with government to create a bridging strategy to the building of the joint support ship and to the Canadian surface combatant, to which the navy is fundamentally committed.
My job is to find ways, working with our allies, to increase the capacity of the fleet we have. So we very carefully now choose the highest impact exercises, like the Rim of the Pacific exercise, like Trident Juncture with NATO, like the task group exercise in which we are working with four major surface combatants of the United States navy and two nuclear submarines right as we speak, right now.
My job is to find those training opportunities so our navy comes up to the level of readiness despite the absence of those two classes of ship.