I want to thank the member for the question. It would put the operations at critical risk. We'd be operating ships that would be 70 years old, which is almost twice the normal lifespan of a vessel of this size and this class.
For us, that risk is untenable, and this is not just for us. It's for the people we serve. Certainly, there are the people in the members' ridings. Up and down the 1,600 kilometres of coastline, 23 million people rely on us every year to move back and forth. As ships age, we get things like metal fatigue and other critical failures that just can't be avoided with simple maintenance. It's just that the ships age out.