Thank you.
I'm going to follow up the line of questioning by the parliamentary secretary. Certainly, as a former Sea King navigator, no one knows procurement problems perhaps better than I do. The period of time she talked about, the generational periods that are required for procurement, leads to the absurd situation where Pierre Trudeau's F-18 is replaced by his son with used Australian F-18s. Our participation in the joint strike fighter was started under the Chrétien government, but it's now unclear whether we're going to be a participatory country in the F-35. The maritime helicopter procurement program, the Sea King replacements, started under Pierre Trudeau and was cancelled by Chrétien.
I like the comments about bipartisanship, but how do you suggest we do that? It gets caught in election cycles, and naive, I would suggest, promises by leaders of, I won't say what party, set back 15 years of procurement work. Do you recommend approaches where the Australians seem to get it right? Do you recommend a specialized secretariat? I would be open to any suggestions, because I agree that we have to take the politics out.