You're talking about taking a special operating agency with a safety mandate and marrying it to the navy, and that doesn't solve the constabulary problem, because neither the navy nor the Coast Guard right now really has a constabulary function. That's Transport Canada, the RCMP, etc.
But we're starting to do this in some ways in the Arctic, based on the platform that we have. The Arctic offshore patrol vessels will be piloted by the navy but will have on board Coast Guard, Transport, RCMP, etc., as required. Maybe that's the way to go, working with this whole-of-government approach rather than taking the Coast Guard and the navy and making them into a new sort of hybrid.
We have a small navy and a small Coast Guard. On the one hand, perhaps that gives us economies of scale, but you would have to change the whole training, the mandate. It's something that could maybe happen far off in the future, but it makes me nervous for a whole bunch of reasons. I think it's a conversation that the commissioner and the commander of the navy are much better placed to participate in, concerning the limit.
The real innovation of the Arctic offshore patrol vessels, however, is being able to do that. You get the range of responses, from the safety to the constabulary to a defence option, based from one platform. For a small country such as Canada, for our naval, Coast Guard, and Transport Canada forces this is very innovative.