Absolutely. When I go through the document and trace through the five pillars, I can see they are provided in the way these documents have ultimately always provided them. You get little one-way arrows for what it sees as the variables being connected, but it provides government with no guidance whatsoever on addressing the issue that has been at the heart of how we have made almost all our major political decisions regarding a procurement.
The question in my mind goes back to a couple of points that Christian and Richard were making. Unlike our Nordic allies, which made the decision to procure the F-35 in relatively short order, how do we understand the factors in Canada—our industrial policy or whatever it was—that caused the F-35 to still be a non-decision? How did we make the decision to basically divide the replacement for the Sea Kings into two different directions, where there are growing criticisms of the choice that was made for the navy as opposed to the Coast Guard? What does the policy tell us? How does it help us?
I'm reflecting on the last question about the drone centre. My question, from an industrial policy perspective, is always about how the Ukrainians, from the point of being invaded in 2014, took a warfighting technology into a battlefield—the use of drones. I'm wondering what the political techniques were that made them able to come together and say, “This is something we have to look at. We're fighting a war. We have to get the resources.” All of a sudden, they're getting the types of tactical victories we're seeing reported in the press. Does our industrial strategy provide us with any guidance that follows how the Ukrainians were able to do that?
We can talk about Mirabel. We can talk about the unity of connections. However, it still comes back to this: How do you do that in a warfighting environment? I don't think the strategy provides us with any guidance in any of the pillars on how you do that and on what the role is of the politicians or the political elites to assure that we are able to copy what the Ukrainians were able to do in that context.