The best outcome would be for CHARS to coordinate all of the various activities that are taking place in Canada. Within the federal government alone, I think there are over 20 departments and agencies that have some research activity taking place in the north, from the Museum of Nature to Transport Canada, and so on.
I hope that CHARS will be able to, through both its mandate and its operations, identify the synergies across those various activities within the federal government, and more broadly in the country. That would be a more efficient use of resources and would allow us also to capture more of the international opportunities for partnership and collaboration. Most countries in the world that are conducting Arctic research are looking at Canada as an important partner in the future, and I think CHARS will help to facilitate that.