There is a role, a place, and a time for every type of submarine, whether it's a conventional boat like the Victoria class or a Japanese boat with air-independent propulsion or a nuclear platform. There is, in the alliance and partnership world, a really valuable contribution to every type of submarine, and therefore a space for the Canadian submarine.
The north is not an easy operating environment. It is not necessarily the domain of undersea warfare, either. When you go forward and work above the Arctic Circle, you are going to the sea lanes that foreign services must use to come out of the Arctic as they attempt to use their navy to influence global affairs. Navies influencing global affairs, for good or for bad, aren't necessarily steaming toward the North Pole or into the Arctic Archipelago.
There is a role in the north; there is a role for all types of submarines; but where we tend to go is where potential adversarial forces are trying to come out of the Arctic to influence global affairs. That's today. I cannot tell you what it might be in the future, but my reality today is to send the boat I have under my employment forward toward those sea lines of egress from the north.