That's a great question. I think it's a question that many MPs are asking and many Canadians are asking, especially the Canadians who don't have the privilege of living in large, affluent urban centres, as you know. Being from Kingston, I know and appreciate the region well.
There are two take-aways for me here. One is that everything we do needs to have a dual use and outcome, because we need to show Canadians that there's concrete value in these investments for them so that we don't lose them, and we need to make it sustainable, because the environment and technology will change, and we need to have both the defence side and the civilian side.
I want to go back to my opening statement and my idea of having an expert commission that trades off political, fiscal, defence and economic priorities among different regions of this country, especially given what's going on in some of the provinces. The fiscal policies of three of the provinces in particular are going to create huge problems for the federal government. Can we use some of the leverage with defence investments to achieve positive-sum outcomes across the spectrum in Canada?