No, I think it is definitely one of the challenges in procurement. The longer the delays are in some of these major projects, the cost escalation we see can be quite significant, particularly in defence. So when you are budgeting and getting approval of a project at a certain amount of money, if your procurement is delayed, by the time you get around to getting through that process, your costs are quite high. That's certainly going to put pressure on the long-term funding envelope we have for procurement.
First and foremost, it's going to be critical for us to do really good budgeting up front and make sure our costs are sound before we embark on a project. As I mentioned earlier with Mr. Harris and others, I have experience, at least in the federal government, in accelerating programs. Infrastructure projects used to take us forever—forever. They took a long time to get through. One of the things I'm proud about is how fast we were able to streamline that process when we needed to.
I will certainly be trying to do that. To do that, I need to really work closely with Public Works and Industry in particular. I have a biweekly meeting with the deputy and the associate at Public Works, with John, and we just go through it and crunch any issue and every issue that might be blocking us and try to move it off the plate.