I would say for sure that the people who are drafting these contracts with the defence sector need, before the negotiations, to have a better understanding of how these risks arise. The fact is that they can actually integrate appropriate responses within these agreements themselves, for example, with penalties, cost sharing and flexibility.
The French have something very interesting, which is pre-contractual risk assessment. There's a financial obligation under which the government and the contractor agree that they're both watching for overages and they're both going to take responsibility if there are overages.
You really have to have a shared sense of responsibility and transparency for this to work, but it can work and it's actually helped them streamline their defence procurement and prevented overages on some major projects.
Canada can do some little things. It needs the defence sector to be more open to designing better contracts. It's about the fact that those contractors have private information. How do you get over those structural issues? You need better design contracts. Solutions are available, but Canada just doesn't put those into practice.