It's a very good question. There are three components to any major military procurement. There are always factors around cost, capability, and schedule. Sometimes we'll consciously sacrifice schedule to make sure that we get the most capability for the dollar available.
When we're talking about the Canadian surface combatant, for example, those ships will be built over three decades. We'll start taking delivery in the mid-2020s. The last ship will be delivered in 2042. That last ship will sail out to 2070, so we want to make sure that we're going to get the most capability we can for the dollar that's available. It takes a lot of time in the design phase to make sure we're getting a design that enables technology insertion, if you can imagine how much technology is going to change over the next three decades. We don't want to have a design that leaves us stuck with a solution that produces a ship that's obsolete by the time it comes off the production line.
That's why procurement takes a lot of time up front to get it right so we deliver, as we say, as much capability as we possibly can, maximizing the value for Canadians while delivering the equipment that our soldiers, sailors, and airmen and airwomen need.