Mr. Minister, you talked about learning a lot from the war in Ukraine.
Certainly, one of the things we've learned is this: There seems to be a worldwide shortage of ammunition. The Ukrainians don't have enough 155-millimetre shells. Madame Normandin asked about the production of more shells and your response was, “well, there is a company that is going to provide them, but they doubled the price. Then, when we agreed to that, they doubled the price again.”
I'm not sure how many companies there are making 155-millimetre shells, but it seems to me from your response that the problem is that we don't have enough companies making that form of ammunition, or, from a previous question, nine-millimetre ammunition. There seems to be, perhaps, a market failure. In normal times, there isn't enough demand for 155-millimetre shells, but now there is. It would be nice to think that, perhaps, in six months or a year, the war in Ukraine will be over and there may not be a demand. However, this would seem to me to be the kind of market failure that requires government intervention to support companies starting to produce 155-millimetre shells and other forms of ammunition.
Has there been any effort on the part of the government to give incentives to companies to start the production of ammunition?