Clearly, the theme for the Arctic Council is development for northerners. I think that is one of the platforms we could hitch to.
Your broader question is on what we do in the international waters and how we manage that. It's probably the main reason the Americans are focused on this. I don't think they're worried about what we and they are going to do. I think the worry is, what if, at mile one outside the boundary, somebody decides to come in and start prosecuting a fishery? What do you do? That opens up all kinds of questions. I think what you're really looking at is having to develop some kind of coalition of the willing. Even if you had a coalition of the willing, I think you'd have to look at what you do to enforce it.
We have our enforcement capabilities. We use the coast guard; we use Transport Canada; we use the Department of National Defence to expand the scope of our surveillance patrols and that kind of stuff. It would be a stretch for us and for the Americans to expand it beyond that. Even if you did, how would you prosecute it? There would probably have to be something more than the Arctic Council that would be able to put in the governance that would be necessary to put that forward.
It's a really good question. It's one that's garnering a lot of talk.