A challenge that always faces the Canadian navy is that they know they're going to have a limited number of hulls. We get back to hulls, of course, in this context.
Anyone who has lived in Victoria or Halifax will know the distinction between a brown-water navy and a green-water navy, which are supposed to have a little bit of a coastal ability, and a blue-water navy, which means dealing with the type of storms we have off of both sides. The distinction is substantial.
Your question, however, gets to the point that Dr. Charron was raising. How do you have that maritime awareness? How do you integrate a system of sensors that will allow you...? When I say sensors, I mean all the way from the individual person to the highest tech in terms of satellite surveillance, the satellite constellation system, and this integration.
I think in many ways the stuff that Dr. Charron was talking about in how to take the limited assets and make sure that you have complete capability of knowing who is in fact entering your waters is an ongoing requirement. Once again, we get into the unsatisfactory answer that, to have proper surveillance capability, it's not just that we've solved that problem and we know that everything is coming, because on the other side, the technology is always changing in that context, so it's a mindset.
I think a lot of the recommendations that Dr. Charron was saying about a creation of a maritime intelligence capability have to be something that we are thinking of. That then integrates into the actual assets that we have.
