Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to Ms. Hogan for being here today. Obviously you have a lot of very useful information for this committee.
I'm going to start on the national shipbuilding strategy. Being a member of Parliament from Nova Scotia, this program is extremely important. I know a lot of individuals and constituents I represent who are involved in the shipyard work in Halifax. Canada has a shipbuilding history, but these types of contracts obviously only come in certain types of decades along the way.
I'm curious. You mentioned there were some delays in the first two ships that were built. Is some of that tied to the fact that we have to build capacity in some of these industries, that it is not a continuation...? There's not always these types of contracts that require this type of skill set and this type of procurement happening year over year, so to speak.