Sir, perhaps I can answer the last piece about military elements of the capability. It is the centrepiece of a whole number of capabilities invested in by the Canadian Armed Forces, by the people of Canada. The C-17 is fully an Arctic-capable strategic-lift air platform that delivers major components of anything required by the government or military in the north to most dirt fields in the north. It is then distributed by C-130Js or Chinook helicopters. Personnel rescue can fly in the back of the Cormorant, which is fully enabled for the north.
We now have Arctic response company groups that are fully capable of deploying into the north. These are companies of trained soldiers. We have enabled rangers who support every mission of the navy, the army, and the air force in the north.
We have a command and control structure that has regional joint task forces. I command one, Art commands another, and General Nixon controls the one in the north. It's a coherent command and control structure that allows military forces to converge.
The missing piece, in this and many other aspects of military capability in Canada, is a sustainable, long-range, large, useful multi-mission capability like the Arctic offshore patrol ship to work in Canada's northern waters. This new piece is coming in 2018.