Let me first take issue, if I may, with your opening comment.
I am dismayed by this procurement. I have made that very, very clear. It's not just rhetoric. I have acted. I'm the transport minister. I was and am aware that money goes from Transport Canada in operating support for the operation of ferries in British Columbia. It was very important to me to make formally clear an insistence that none of that operating money be used for this procurement. I have received those assurances.
Second of all, as importantly, I am taking active steps to ensure that in going-forward purchases of anything Transport Canada has control over, we are putting a priority on Canadian manufacturing jobs, on Canadian steel and on Canadian aluminum. We are not just talking about it. We are actually working to do it. That is really important.
I have to say that I was very encouraged by the conversation I had today with Seaspan. They're excited to be part of this work.