Yes and no. It's a typical academic answer. There's been a lot of good work that people have been able to continue to develop at the lower levels. The work to develop the business council is something I think Canadians will rightly look back on and be very proud of, and it has Russian participation.
Where we see a lot of the challenges though, that I've written about coming to unfortunate fruition, are with some of the issues that are dealing with a broader political environment. For example, we have the search and rescue treaty that the Arctic Council is very proud of, and is very rightfully proud of. The Russians didn't participate in the exercise this year. Under the terms of the treaty, I believe that was to be expected. They did not participate.
We also created, under Canadian leadership, an Arctic chief of staff group that was to meet. That, unfortunately, has now been indefinitely postponed.
We see the efforts to communicate, to discuss, to have confidence-building on the military side. I say that would be the most direct price that has been paid at the Arctic Council. In the longer term is the issue of what the Finns and Swedes do again. That's going to be the larger political issue.