Thank you so much. Actually, this was really a fantastic segue to what my colleague Randall is talking about. I wanted to speak a little about education, and in terms of our maintenance and so on.
Regardless of whether we're talking about naval equipment, air force, or Armed Forces, our biggest spend is going to be in military procurement. On the question of intellectual property, sovereignty issues, our capacity to actually keep the jobs here in Canada is vitally important in terms of our economic growth and so on and so forth.
I have a question in that regard. We currently have the capacity to maintain our frigates and so on, and we have multiple companies bidding on these projects. In your opinion, should we be focusing more and more on keeping this capability here in Canada, in terms of our long-term growth strategy, in terms of creating those jobs, in terms of our sovereignty, our capacity to grow that industry? I will give the example of our aeronautic industry. We should be focusing on keeping that intellectual property.
I was looking at the briefing that we received for our Royal Canadian Navy, and it's even our training that we're looking at now, possibly even outsourcing that. What should we be doing in terms of keeping that capacity here? Of course we have to have that interoperability with our NATO allies and so on. But if we're able to invest in Canada, of course, I think that would be most ideal. Could you elaborate a little more in terms of our education, in terms of our training, in terms of our procurement, and of course, the supply.
The procurement of the asset is one thing, but then it's our capacity to maintain that asset for multiple years. As you know, we keep our assets longer than their lifespan, unfortunately. Could you elaborate a little more on that?
I'm sure, Dr. Lerhe, you have some comments, as well as Professor Hansen.