One of the big problems we have with procurement is the budget. The Parliamentary Budget Office has a concept for how to figure out what things cost that includes the full life-cycle costs, incorporating personnel costs and the replacement part costs, and so Canadians are then presented with costs that seems absolutely astronomical. You need a ship. The decision is you're going to buy ship A or ship B. We should tell them what the ships cost, and not us the ridiculous through-life cost of the whole thing. That's one aspect.
The other aspect is there is a reason, and I understand why procurement is political. It's about jobs and jobs are votes, so it is fundamentally a political thing, but we fail to demonstrate to Canadians which costs are associated with job creation and which are associated with buying military capability.
I don't mind if we're going to spend twice as much as our allies to buy a ship if our purpose is to build a shipbuilding industry in this country and create jobs, but don't put that extra 50% under the defence budget. Put it under industry and development or something else that demonstrates to Canadians that this money is being spent on job creation, not on buying ships.