We've recently seen some encouraging signs when it comes to developing sovereign capabilities or leveraging Canada's aerospace industry. As I said earlier, we're one of the few countries with this complete capability, from service design to production and from aircraft design to certification and maintenance. It's a strategic capability.
I also noted something earlier. We think that it's encouraging to see the defence industrial strategy include the important pillar of research and development. However, work remains to be done. Programs and initiatives have been launched, including BOREALIS. These are encouraging signs. We need to roll out these programs on a larger scale.
We also need to focus on creating partnerships in innovation, which requires a different approach. We're talking about innovation procurement and about having structures, processes and channels in place in order to embark on development programs with our own government in the areas of its choice. This means areas where we want to develop sovereign capabilities. This calls for engagement with the industry at a much earlier stage, even before the tendering process. This also calls for security infrastructure. Both the government and the industry must work hard on this in order to create a framework for this type of discussion.