Government Operations committee  I'll be honest with you. I'm focused on my shipyard.

Government Operations committee  I'm focusing on delivering ships for Canada and—

Government Operations committee  I think anything that increases the shipyard capability.... On the comments made by my colleague from CADSI, I would agree with those 100%. We need to support the expansion of the maritime industry in Canada, and Irving does that through our value proposition commitments and thin

Government Operations committee  I'd be happy to give you a detailed breakdown of all of our suppliers across Canada. That's information we have for you, for sure.

Government Operations committee  We have all the provinces represented. I can tell you that.

Government Operations committee  The answer to your question is yes. The decision was made by the Department of National Defence for the Type 26.

Government Operations committee  Irving Shipbuilding had the responsibility to run the procurement process for them. We helped provide the scoring and all that, but we did not have access to the final scoring. Kevin, perhaps you could provide more detail.

Government Operations committee  Right. You mentioned immigration right there. That, for instance, is certainly one of the biggest areas where speeding up the process would help. There's a backlog right now, and we would hope that the national shipbuilding strategy immigration that we are pursuing will take prio

Government Operations committee  I would highly recommend that. Particularly in Halifax, we're starting to come into a period of housing shortages, and we need affordable housing for our workers to occupy.

Government Operations committee  The total cost of the six-ship contract—

Government Operations committee  I think my answer to your question is that the $800 million, or whatever number was added to the contract, is not the incremental cost of a single ship.

Government Operations committee  The number we are looking at right now is somewhere between $400 million and $450 million for the sixth ship.

Government Operations committee  In our procurement process, we absolutely give priority to small Canadian companies and medium-sized Canadian companies. We use them for our HVAC system installations on the ships. We have a dedicated staff resource who helps us constantly survey the local Canadian market to brin

Government Operations committee  It's very difficult to—

Government Operations committee  Our productivity is lower than that of other shipyards in North America that are building ships of a complexity that is similar to what we're doing right now.