Thank you for that question.
Today we are doing both, and doing them quite well. We have two ships under construction, the first Arctic patrol ships in our new, modernized facility, and right in the same.... You can throw a baseball to the dry dock, where we have a Halifax-class frigate. We ramped up and started the construction on a Harry DeWolf-class ship at the same time. We typically had two of the frigates in the shipyard.
What is very important for us is that new construction has trade peaks and valleys and repair has trade peaks and valleys. Typically, when you put them together, you can manage if you have a critical mass of work to do that.
Right now, we have about 300 people—mechanics, engineers, and logisticians—who work in Halifax-class maintenance and in-service support. If we didn't continue to get that, that would be 300 people fewer. Those skills, knowledge, and abilities would have to transfer to some other part of the country. Along with it would come the loss of supporting overhead. It would also degrade that critical mass of workers so that when we have those trade imbalances, we would be forced to take more drastic action than we typically do now, which would be that we would have to move workers back and forth all the time between repair and new construction in order to smooth out those balances.
Today we're doing it. We're doing it quite well. We just finished seven of seven Halifax-class mid-life upgrades, on time and under budget. It's an integral part of our business that we manage.