Increasingly what we're finding is that in-service support and maintenance is really about complex systems that we put on platforms, whether it's for the navy, land, or the air force. We don't want, as a public buyer, to be beholden to one OEM which either is going to charge us overly high rates or is not going to be around when we need to make modifications down the road.
Our focus is, at the outset of the contract, especially with such things as intellectual property, on either having ownership or actually being pretty restrained with ownership—having licensing and access—so that down the road we can re-compete, have choice, or have innovation and not be hamstrung by a particular supplier.
We're talking with industry right now about this, because we have heard from them that it's a sore spot. It is for us as well. We're working out some basic guidelines for a country the size of Canada that needs to have choice and flexibility and is also very linked to innovation. If we want to make sure that we keep access to key intellectual property in our country so that we can both service our fleets and also help companies grow and become part of the supply chain, that's our focus.