As I mentioned, I think that in creating a specific strategy around shipbuilding, you have done, to some extent, some of the work. It's called the NSS. It's almost as though it's a rallying call, so that it becomes harder and harder for partisan politics to play out and for subsequent governments to overturn what I think is the goodness that has been started.
It sounds a bit easy to say that we just have to have the willpower to keep going at it, knowing that it is an incredibly complex thing we're doing. As I said, most nations, certainly in the G7, have quite directly articulated industrial and foreign policies. I would argue that these are two things that Canada misses that would anchor such a strategy.
If we had a national industrial policy that talked about the fact that we want to have long-lasting capability in shipbuilding, and then over top of that we plunk the NSS, it gives us longevity. We start to educate ourselves about the fact that it's not simply the initial recapitalization of any type of equipment; it is the tail end of this equipment that will last 50 years and will have billions and billions of dollars of maintenance, repair, overhaul and technology insertion, not to mention evolution for our Canadian Armed Forces.
Those are the principles.