Yeah, we are getting into areas here of industrial policy, what we see as the vision for the future of the industrial base.
I think for surface ship construction, there's no difficulty here. We are quite capable of exploiting the capabilities we currently have, those that we're importing from other countries at Irving Shipyard and Seaspan, and taking it much further because the policy is based on the strategy of continuous building of ships. The minute that's gone [Technical difficulty—Editor] will collapse just as it has done in the past and we will lose the gains that we make. That's to be avoided at all costs.
Submarine construction is difficult because of the numbers we currently have and could possibly envision. Even if we went to eight submarines, doubling the size of the submarine fleet, it's unlikely that we could sustain a steady, continuous building program at a single shipyard for submarines.
So my point earlier about where the emphasis goes and what the fleet composition of the future should be is a pretty complex one. It does need research. The government needs policy advice on this, but it involves multiple departments: education, employment, and industry.