I would say that in the evolution of specifications by which we build ships, if you went back a generation ago, the military specification would have been the highest standard. That's still true, I would say, for our front-line combatants. The way we will design and build the Canadian surface combatants, or were we to do submarines, will be around structures and capability that make them highly survivable. If they take damage, they will continue to operate.
The civilian standards around ships have continued to evolve and move forward. In this day and age, most ships are built to international classification societies. In fact, most of the ships we are building under the strategy for the Coast Guard, as well as for the navy—so parts of the Arctic offshore patrol ship, parts of the joint support ship—are actually built to civilian standards. They are sufficient and of very high quality.
As a result, the shipyards, ship designers, and equipment suppliers across Canada are all building skill sets across the marine industry that would also enable them to perform well in the commercial sector. It's highly competitive, and there's a lot of protectionism internationally, but there are certainly Canadian companies that are watching very closely, even Canadian fleet operators.
In the case of Seaspan, they are not only shipyards, but they also have a very large international fleet, and they have a very large fleet of auxiliary vessels that actually provide services to Vancouver harbour. There is an opportunity there. In fact, when we established the umbrella agreements, the expectation was that we are going to provide them this work, but we expect them to go out and to complete their order book by finding other work.
Both yards continue to do that in a number of areas. Of course, for Seaspan, it's across multiple yards, whether it's other parts of Seaspan they're working for or other suppliers. For example, they continue to do a significant amount of work, interestingly, for foreign-flagged cruise ships. They do massive refits in Victoria. It's really impressive to see. The idea is to continue to build on that.