No, that's quite fine. We've identified already, through you, Madam Chair, the delays in the process.
These increases are going to cost Canadians in multiple ways. Again, going back to the PBO, each year a project is delayed will see production costs increase by tens of millions of dollars per ship. We've also heard that there's a cost to retrofitting the ships that are scheduled to be replaced in order to keep them in service longer than expected.
We heard the DM from DND, I believe, talk about contingencies. My question through you, Madam Chair, to her, would be, who's paying for the cost of retrofitting the existing ships to extend their service? Considering the overall cost of the shipbuilding, is this part of the contingency or is this a holdback or a set-aside from the actual contract through the procurement with a company like Irving?