I'll take that one.
In 2009, that letter you spoke about predated the national shipbuilding procurement strategy at that time. All of us, quite frankly, were trying to figure out how to survive the next day.
Once NSPS came out and the government, not us.... To be honest with you, if you had asked us, I would probably have said, as the shipbuilders would say, “We'll just do it all.” We didn't say that it would be two shipyards. The federal government did, based on the number of vessels they knew they had to build.
The reason that makes sense, and the reason we're not looking to hold anybody out, is really about the cost to Canada. It's back to that story I talked about before. We're not talking about hundreds and hundreds of ships, as in the United States, which builds 15 combatant ships a year, and probably an equal number of non-combatants. Unless Canada is going to spend that kind of money, which I don't think it is, then not everybody can feast. It physically doesn't work.
The other part that was recently brought up was that maybe we could build the ships in different shipyards and cut them up, unblemished by success. It never happens.
There was the case of a shipyard in the United States last year. The shipowner decided to cut the ship up into three shipyards. Two of the three shipyards went bankrupt, and so did the shipowner. It's very inefficient, and it costs a lot of money.