Canada has already made that decision, and made that decision for us. Back in 2010 and 2011, when the national shipbuilding procurement strategy, the NSPS, was started, the government looked at it and asked if it should repeat the past, which would basically be to say it would give these ones three ships, these ones five ships, these ones one ship, and these other ones two ships, and then in eight years everybody would be bankrupt and lay everybody off. Alternatively, it could “right-size” the number of vessels to keep a number of centres of expertise alive. I will note that it never said it would pick one for the west coast and one for the east coast; it said that the number of combat and non-combat ships would justify work for two shipyards. That's how they stated it.
Then it opened this fair, open, and transparent policy to actually see who could win the rights to be one of those two winners. It ended up being one on the east and one on the west, but it could have been anywhere. It could have been any of the recipients who were trying to win the bid.
There were two winners, which have now rolled out hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money into our business to make sure that we can fulfill Canadians' needs.
As I mentioned in my speech earlier, I was fully aware that had we not won, we would have shut down our shipyards. There's only so much capacity in Canada for shipbuilding. There's a reason that there are now two.