Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, and your team for being here. I always appreciate having you before us.
Minister, Nova Scotia has a proud and successful shipbuilding heritage, and as you know, Irving Shipbuilding is located in both the ridings of Halifax and Dartmouth—Cole Harbour. As you also know, they are the prime contractor for the Canadian surface combatant program, both for project definition and for the implementation phases. We have tradespeople from all across Canada working in the Halifax regional municipality building ships and planting roots. We have the schools ramping up training. We have indigenous pilot programs. We have Women Unlimited. We have some really incredible things going on back home. Folks are eager to get the surface combatant project under way as soon as possible. I'm really pleased to see funding in the supplementary estimates for this project. I wonder if you could fill me in on what the government is doing to keep this very important project on track.