Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you kindly.

Foreign Affairs committee  It has to be with northerners, and you have to have the capacity for northerners to shape how the north should develop. Let me come back to the previous member. In terms of capacity, everything from high school completion to vocational training is critically important, and univ

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, there are a couple of things. One is capacity. You take, for example, in terms of an Inuit education strategy, they're already speaking.... I was just at a conference a couple of weeks ago, chaired by Mary Simon, about an Inuit education strategy. If we look at our northern

Foreign Affairs committee  To me, these are very much two sides of the one coin. Even if you look at what the Arctic Council has worked on—and there has been a heavy emphasis on environmental issues, and rightly so—their work has also been in the context of oil and gas guidelines and so on. That's a realit

Foreign Affairs committee  In those particular instances it absolutely is correct. But things such as oil and gas recommendations—

Foreign Affairs committee  Tremendous. Thanks very kindly.

Foreign Affairs committee  You bet, and thanks for the opportunity to present. There are three parts to the presentation that I want to provide today. One is just putting some context around the north and Canada's northern or Arctic foreign policy. Second, I want to identify two particular areas that I th