Most certainly, I think it is up to industry to put proposals on the table as to how it can ramp up production, which, as I understand it, these companies have done. There have been proposals submitted to the Government of Canada to increase production that require anything from line changes to agreements on production volumes and backstopping it, because governments are our only customer with respect to munitions supply.
We also need to understand that other countries are positioning their industry to make this volume production. For example, France is not going to buy from Canada if it can produce munitions in that order of magnitude. It understands that it will be an investment in its own industrial base to do so and then provide those munitions to Ukraine, as an example.
France is not going to come to Canada unless the Canadian government steps forward and says, “We have a source of supply that we are willing to share with our NATO partners and Ukraine, and we are willing to backstop getting that up to production rate and diverting our operational volumes to another country”—to multiple other countries, for that matter, because the volume of product that would be required would be significantly historical highs.
