Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Fortin, for clarifying that your invitation was for one hour. I appreciate that.
As a member who represents a riding that's the home of the Canadian Pacific fleet and also the Victoria Shipyards, I was keen to be here today in this committee, although I have to say I've not felt keen to be in the industry committee before.
Since you do have to leave, I want to start my first round of my questions with you, Mr. Fortin.
When the national shipbuilding strategy came out, the discussion was that for the ships to be designed, the preference would be for an off-the-shelf design. We all know there's really no such thing as an off-the-shelf design, but I wonder with the technology whether there aren't some good reasons why we might want to look at a Canadian design, apart from timing, rather than an off-the-shelf design. For the benefits of developing technology in Canada, it would seem to me there aren't off-the-shelf designs in Canada for the ships we're talking about, and those elsewhere would be unlikely to include Canadian-developed technology in their designs.