Government Operations committee  First of all, I would like to say....

Government Operations committee  To answer your first question, I would have to say that we're constantly in conversation with our allies who are in shipbuilding. We are aware of what our allies are doing with the construction of large icebreakers. We are not actively talking to them about options yet. The annou

Government Operations committee  We awarded the design contract in February to Irving Shipbuilding, who in turn awarded the subcontract to Lockheed Martin Canada who is working with BAE Systems.

Government Operations committee  What I can tell you is that we've just finished the competitive process to select the design. National Defence has a budget of $56 to $60 billion. The result of the competitive process confirms that at this point, there is still [Technical difficulty--Editor] in the budget to del

Government Operations committee  On the results of the competitive process, which meets the requirements of the navy, yes.

Government Operations committee  We saw two opportunities there to mitigate the cost risks associated with this decision—not necessarily added costs, but the mitigation of cost risks. One of them is to bring the efficiency of JSS 1 into JSS 2 by giving the engineers enough time to do the design changes and to in

Government Operations committee  Not the way we're tackling this issue. In fact, we are trying to mitigate risks to costs.

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  It's earlier than that—three to four years from February 2019 in design, and then start of construction after that.

Government Operations committee  The budget remains at $3.4 billion, and we're about to start negotiations for the construction contracts with the yard.

Government Operations committee  It is being finalized, and again, back to the re—

Government Operations committee  I said it is being.

Government Operations committee  Again, going back to the resequencing question you had earlier for us, it was also about putting all efforts on the joint ship design work—getting it done so that we could start construction—and then spending more time on the offshore oceanic science vessel. All efforts are now o

Government Operations committee  On the two different contexts—

Government Operations committee  On the CSC, I think it's fair to say that the early ships will still be in the design and prototype kind of stage and that you can expect a base payment that will be more along the lines of time and materials, which is a typical approach internationally. As we mature—