At any rate, I do have a couple of quick comments on this.
To my understanding, the federal government has not specifically laid out any plans to explore oil in the Arctic yet.
On the other issue, when the motion says “among other things”, that confuses me a little bit more. What are those “other things”? To my understanding, it would be wide open to any and every kind of discussion in any area that we could imagine. I don't know if we'd be able to finish this study in years if we started talking about other things.
Maybe it would help me to understand it better if Fin made it some specific study--for example, if he says he is concerned about Canadian Coast Guard problems; that would help.