Foreign Affairs committee  —where the activity is.

Foreign Affairs committee  The National Energy Board is responsible for the drilling in the Arctic and I believe they are the same environmental standards and expectations. We're not involved in that sort of assessment. We respond as required.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a very broad question. It would depend on the type of spill, the size of the spill, and where it occurred. The ship-source pollution regime within Canada makes the polluter responsible. The polluter ultimately is the first line of defence against the spill and then coast gu

Foreign Affairs committee  There are different techniques. We have an environmental response group that focuses on response in the Arctic in our central and Arctic region and they train to respond to that kind of oil spill.

Foreign Affairs committee  In the chart we've provided, we resupply that far up, in Eureka. That chart shows one of the routes that one of our heavy icebreakers would take in the middle of summer to do community resupply.

Foreign Affairs committee  They do go that far up north.

Foreign Affairs committee  The aircraft you're referring to and all aircraft for search and rescue are DND assets. The coast guard does maritime search and rescue. We work obviously very closely with National Defence, but the responsibility for those assets is not ours. So I couldn't speak to....

Foreign Affairs committee  I can speak to the maritime assets in that we have recently received money to renew our fleet. Having the John G. Diefenbaker, the polar icebreaker in the Arctic, for longer periods of time will help us predict where incidents will be depending on where the ice moves in, etc. As

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of the coast guard there is, absolutely. We belong to two other forums, the North Atlantic Coast Guard Forum and the North Pacific Coast Guard Forum, both of which have as members Arctic Council countries. We meet regularly and exercise regularly with them to ensure read

Foreign Affairs committee  There are multiple parts to that question. I'll start, and Transport Canada will jump in. We see a gradual increase in traffic, although we're not responsible for monitoring those kinds of trends. But as natural resource extraction increases and as eco-adventure tourism increase

Foreign Affairs committee  I wouldn't want to speculate.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  There were two.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.