If we look at Canada itself, our policy-making system is poor. We don't have a clear statement of what our national security goals are, what the military strategy is and what our national defence requirements are for a defence industrial base. Because of that, right now we have a defence industrial strategy without a current national security strategy, as the Prime Minister has said in other times.
If you don't have that clear demand signal that creates stuff, as Dr. Leuprecht said, like understanding what's out there in defence, you don't understand the means to the ends, and as a result, you don't have the right outcomes. That makes it really difficult for industry to know what we need to build and what the requirements are, and also for the military to say, “These are the things we want to do. What can go to industry?”
It makes for a very poor policy-making process that doesn't get the required outcomes and doesn't have the continued regeneration of what's necessary within the industrial base.