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What are some ways, I've been talking to a lot of companies around submarines, around sustainment, around all the stuff that goes around the outside of this.

And one of the things that keeps coming up is workforce, right? It's like you can have all this stuff, but if you don't have the trained people to operate it, then you're kind of, you know, you're no better off than you were when you started.

So what are some of the ways Canada can build a suitable workforce to maintain the new submarine

fleet? So great question.

The...

For us, and for the support we've been giving the Royal Canadian Navy in CSBC, like one of the fundamental things is training.

There has to be a plan, not when the boat arrives, but years ahead of the arrival of the first 212 CD, which right now is, you know, said, you know, no contract is signed right now.

So they're still negotiating that.

But the plan, the promise by TKMS is 2033.

Um, so long before that, we have to have people standing on the dock side, educated, trained and understanding of what they have to do.

Um, and so we can't build that that day.

So, um, As a company ourselves, we've identified this for quite some time.

We've been looking at our magic eight ball and seeing this coming.

So training's been something we've been pursuing quite a bit.

We've been in discussions with UBC, so the University of British Columbia, We're looking to, in collaboration with them, supporting a submarine design and engineering introduction course within their engineering program starting in January.

So we've taken some of our subject matter experts to contribute on that.

So they'll be at, you'll have an option while you're doing engineering studies, firstly at UBC to get an introduction into why is submarine engineering different than a ship? Like, why, you know, why is it different? And, you know, the short answer is because, you know, why is it airplane maintenance different than a truck maintenance? It's because when something goes wrong on the airplane, you need to know that you've done everything to make sure that you've got either backup systems to correct the problem or you've done everything possible to manage that, the problem, the probability of the problem happening because the severity is so bad that the probability of something going wrong has been eliminated as best you could by having all the evidence to control it.

So...

So to try and introduce to young engineers that are, you know, just deciding what they want to do, you know, why submarines might be an interesting thing.

And, you know, with the introduction of up to 12 212 CDs, this is an industry that you will be able to choose and stay in for your entire career, you know, as long as you want, because this is going to be around.

Aside from that, we've stood up a training course, SOAR, One of our partner companies in Australia for years has been offering a submarine design and engineering course to industry.

And they're tailoring that now to support their AUKUS kind of venue they're taking.

But we've leveraged that training and Canadianized it and we're getting ready to start delivering that to defense and industry partners that want to get their people that aren't necessarily submariners more swept and more up to speed and what's different why are submarines treated differently what's what are the challenges what are the opportunities so we're looking to start putting that together and we've worked closely with Canada to to establish a set of training courses for primarily for D&D, but for the enterprise.

So people have a better understanding of how submarine material safety management is done.

Kind of like an airworthiness program for an airplane.