Again, I have to keep going back to the fact that there's still a review happening. Nothing has slowed down; nothing has stopped moving forward.
Any path we take needs to bring financial benefits to the Government of Canada and, by extension, taxpayers. We have to make sure our businesses are involved. We have to make sure our companies get work. We have to make sure our economy grows. This is very important.
We're applying that to submarines. We're applying that to planes. We're applying that to.... Everything we buy has a couple of lenses on it: Can we make sure that Canadian companies are fully involved or partially involved, and who do we partner with going forward?
You may have heard me and others say we will be diversifying our defence spend amongst many allies, not just the one to the south of us. They're an important partner, but we need to make sure that we diversify our spend and grow our own economy while we equip the Canadian Armed Forces at speed to meet the moment.