Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2016-06-09 15:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jeffery Hutchinson (Deputy Commissioner, Strategy and Shipbuilding, Department of Fisheries and Oceans)",
        "fr": "M. Jeffery Hutchinson (sous-commissaire, Strat\u00e9gie et construction navale, minist\u00e8re des P\u00eaches et des Oc\u00e9ans)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4437744\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you very much for those questions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437745\" data-originallang=\"en\"> There's no question that we have faced some challenges, from a Coast Guard perspective, in implementing the shipbuilding strategy. If we go back, I think it's important to note, as you have referenced, that starting in 2010 the national shipbuilding strategy was launched because there was recognition that Canada didn't have the strategic shipbuilding capacity that we want as a nation, particularly when we have two large government fleets that have to be supported, particularly when we note that Canada has the longest coast line in the world, particularly when we note that Canada is responsible for three ocean domains. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437746\" data-originallang=\"en\">It's of unquestionable importance to the government and of particular importance to the Coast Guard. We went into shipbuilding recognizing very much that the shipbuilding industry needed to make a commitment. The yards were selected through the NSS, and as Lisa referenced earlier, they've made large investments out of their own coffers to build the infrastructure that they need. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437747\" data-originallang=\"en\">Perhaps we on the government side\u2014and I think it's particularly true for us on the Coast Guard side\u2014didn't recognize how much our own capacity and experience had dissipated over time. We have certainly faced a challenge internally in rebuilding our own capacity in shipbuilding. We have developed a team of engineers who are now...you made the play on words about the plan of attack, so I'll call them a fit fighting unit of engineers who do really exemplary work, there's no question about that, and we're building our cost capacity on the government side and our leadership capacity. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437748\" data-originallang=\"en\">At the same time, concerning the Vancouver shipyard, I think everyone involved suffered from what our external expert calls a conspiracy of optimism. Everyone thought it would move faster than it did, including the yard. They have taken a very measured approach, in my view. They have quite a mature approach to taking lessons from the rebuilding, the implementation of their shipbuilding capacity, and learning from these and improving as they go.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437749\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have seen their capacity, since the first cutting of steel on the offshore fishery science vessel last June, really develop, grow, and mature. They've brought in world-class equipment. They have continued to develop their management team, and most important, they've continued to develop the processes in the yard that will lead to stable, predictable, and high-quality shipbuilding.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437750\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have faced challenges; there's no question about that. Both the Coast Guard and the shipyard have taken steps to address them, and I think we feel the progress that is every day now being made on the shipbuilding.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4437744\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci beaucoup de ces questions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437745\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons certes connu quelques difficult\u00e9s, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la Garde c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, li\u00e9es \u00e0 la mise en place de la strat\u00e9gie de construction navale. Il est important de rappeler, comme vous l'avez d'ailleurs mentionn\u00e9, que cette strat\u00e9gie nationale a \u00e9t\u00e9 lanc\u00e9e en 2010 lorsque le Canada a reconnu qu'il ne poss\u00e9dait pas la capacit\u00e9 strat\u00e9gique de construction navale que nous souhaitons avoir en tant que nation, d'autant plus que nous avons deux grandes flottes gouvernementales \u00e0 soutenir, et aussi parce que le littoral du Canada est le plus long au monde et qu'il touche trois oc\u00e9ans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437746\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette strat\u00e9gie rev\u00eat une importance incontestable pour le gouvernement et une importance toute particuli\u00e8re pour la Garde c\u00f4ti\u00e8re. En nous engageant dans cette strat\u00e9gie de construction navale, nous souhaitions fortement mobiliser l'industrie. Les chantiers navals s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s dans le cadre de la SCN ont consenti, comme l'a mentionn\u00e9 Lisa, d'importants investissements de leur poche pour se doter de l'infrastructure dont ils avaient besoin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437747\" data-originallang=\"en\">Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du gouvernement \u2014 et cela s'applique particuli\u00e8rement \u00e0 nous, de la Garde c\u00f4ti\u00e8re \u2014 nous n'avions peut-\u00eatre pas compris \u00e0 quel point notre capacit\u00e9 et notre exp\u00e9rience s'\u00e9taient \u00e9rod\u00e9es au fil du temps. \u00c0 l'interne, nous avons certes \u00e9t\u00e9 oblig\u00e9s de reconstruire notre propre capacit\u00e9 de construction navale. Nous avons b\u00e2ti une \u00e9quipe d'ing\u00e9nieurs qui est maintenant... vous avez fait un jeu de mots en parlant de plans d'attaque, je vais donc dire que c'est maintenant une \u00e9quipe de combat bien pr\u00e9par\u00e9e qui fait un travail exemplaire, cela ne fait aucun doute; du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du gouvernement, nous renfor\u00e7ons notre capacit\u00e9 de d\u00e9penser et notre leadership.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437748\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne le chantier naval de Vancouver, je pense que tout le monde a souffert de ce que notre consultant expert qualifie de \u00ab conspiration de l'optimisme \u00bb. Tout le monde pensait que les travaux iraient plus vite, y compris le chantier. Ils ont adopt\u00e9 une approche tr\u00e8s pond\u00e9r\u00e9e, une approche raisonnable, afin de tirer des enseignements de la reconstruction et de l'utilisation de leur capacit\u00e9 de construction navale. En tirant des le\u00e7ons de cette exp\u00e9rience, ils cessent de s'am\u00e9liorer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437749\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis la premi\u00e8re coupe d'acier sur le navire hauturier de science halieutique, en juin dernier, nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 en mesure de constater que leur capacit\u00e9 ne cesse de se d\u00e9velopper. Le chantier a acquis de l'\u00e9quipement de calibre mondial. Il continue \u00e0 renforcer son \u00e9quipe de gestion et, surtout, \u00e0 mettre au point des proc\u00e9d\u00e9s qui assureront la stabilit\u00e9, la pr\u00e9visibilit\u00e9 et la qualit\u00e9 sup\u00e9rieure de la construction navale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4437750\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons \u00e9prouv\u00e9 des difficult\u00e9s, cela est ind\u00e9niable. La Garde c\u00f4ti\u00e8re et le chantier ont tous deux pris des mesures pour les r\u00e9soudre et nous pouvons maintenant dire que nous accomplissons des progr\u00e8s tous les jours dans ce projet de construction navale.</p>"
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