When I was commissioner of the Coast Guard, certainly I was part of the deputy minister governance committee that was looking at both shipyards, ensuring that there were no or minimal gaps between builds. The same situation is true in Vancouver shipyards between the offshore fishing science vessel and the offshore oceanographic science vessel.
There isn't a solution yet. The assistant deputy ministers of Public Services and Procurement Canada, Defence, Coast Guard, ISED, and Treasury Board are all very engaged in looking at what the options are. Can we advance work? In Vancouver it's easier because of the number of builds. Can they take in other commercial work in the interim? Can Irving build, as was in the paper the other day, an additional Arctic offshore patrol ship and potentially sell it to somebody?
The cost and benefit of every single option is being looked at now. I haven't seen the outcome of that work. They've been at it for a couple of months. It's big money we're talking about, with serious consequences to getting it wrong. So they don't have an outcome, but it's certainly seizing the deputy minister community involved in shipbuilding.