National Defence committee  I appreciate your continuing to have this line of questioning. As Admiral Newton highlighted earlier, I think there's room for both. We have the knowledge transfer between original equipment manufacturers and our fleet maintenance facilities to allow us to have an in-house strate

National Defence committee  I'll start, Mr. Bezan, and John can follow. I think that all of the considerations you highlighted, sir, are amongst those considerations that went into the extent of work that I had the pleasure of leading over the past few years as we looked at defining a capability that was g

National Defence committee  I have functional authority for overseeing the revitalization of the naval reserves from one that had been predominantly, as I testified, based on delivering a specific mission in the Kingston class, and the sustainment challenges that came with that. In the last while, we've reo

National Defence committee  If you would like, John, I'll jump in on that one. I think as opposed to focusing it on nuclear, the real piece, and the approach the navy normally takes with respect to developing the statement of its requirement, is on the requirement that we're trying to get there. You've to

National Defence committee  We touched on that in the sense that there is dialogue ongoing with respect to all of our capabilities and how they need to evolve. Certainly all of it will be informed again once the DPR, the defence policy review, comes out and resets the context and the lens through which mili

National Defence committee  There is always room for coastal communities to be engaged in supporting naval preparedness, and certainly your area of Vancouver has done so, as you have highlighted—thank you for it—and will continue to do so. We have major shipbuilding programs ongoing in Vancouver, of course,

National Defence committee  I'll take that one as a start, if you don't mind, John. I'll just highlight the fact that, as John mentioned, Indo-Asia Pacific is a focus of our re-engagement under the generate forward policy. We've already had extensive staff discussions in Ottawa between the commanders of ou

National Defence committee  Like a number of our allies, we operate diesel submarines. We've been in discussion with our allies for many years over the performance of our submarines and where we want to go in the future. A number of countries are looking at their potential options going into the future. Aus

National Defence committee  I think the response from the foreign minister with respect to Canada's embrace of the rules-based order is really what we've been engaged with in the Canadian navy for the entire time of my career. We are encouraging of the use of a rules-based order by following that regime our

National Defence committee  It's a great question. I think this is where governments really realize the value of their navies—on the one side, for being prepared, and on the other side, for engaging to help establish intentions up front. We have, in fact, with our allies been working well with the Chinese t

National Defence committee  Mr. Bezan, thank you very much. That Pacific pivot got a lot of attention, and of course, as you know, our view in the Canadian navy is that we pivoted probably two decades before the U.S. We have a balance of forces, roughly, between Admiral Newton's fleet on the east coast an

National Defence committee  Thanks, John. That's a great question, Mr. Fisher, and certainly one of our big concerns. As John said, our greatest issue at the admiralty is to make sure that we are able to attract and to make it a positive environment for recruiting by having relevant operations that resona

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. I do think you need to place it in the context of answering the bell, as we say, for naval readiness today and naval readiness in the future. There can be no doubt, as John highlighted, that delays in delivery require us to manage something

National Defence committee  I think it's a work still in progress, but we've been developing some fantastic relationships. Admiral Newton has already highlighted several of them that work with the Halifax class modernization. A number of the strategic partners that we have there, how we integrate their work

National Defence committee  I think, very rapidly, the biggest gap is to just ensure we do something that I think Mr. Finn, who appeared before you recently, talked about. We've been integrating both in industrial capacity and the fleet maintenance facility in-house capacity to maintain and support our ship