In every one of the areas of sovereign capability there is an opportunity to inject and integrate some of the Canadian supply chain. This will have different impacts on costs, but the whole point of a sovereign capability is that we think about the whole supply chain.
In aerospace, it is often a story of making materials lighter, having a better ability to manage extreme heat and extreme cold. If you think about the landing gear of airplanes, there's a lot of material science in respect to the rubber for wheels, but also the lightness. Especially now with the changing environment of oil prices, the pressure will be on to reduce the weight in all things. This gives Canada's researchers in materials science an advantage. All of these minerals and metals could have a hand in some kind of alloy development in aerospace, but in other sectors as well.
The opportunity for us is to be clear about what our priorities are and how we hope to establish an operational advantage for Canada and then translate that all the way into the supply chain.
