Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman.
The reference in the supplementaries is actually a capital acquisition. With it, in fairly short order, we managed to install a very sophisticated multibeam camera on the bottom of the Louis S. St-Laurent. We did that in a matter of months. In fact, the Louis was dispatched to the Arctic under an expedition led by Natural Resources Canada to provide high-definition mapping on what we would consider to be fairly critical elements of the delineation process that we will ultimately submit to the United Nations.
As members may know, we did submit our Atlantic claim last year. We submitted a fair amount of information, but partial information on the Arctic claim, so along with our colleagues in NRCan, we mapped in this past year. I expect that we will do so again next year in an effort to complete what has turned out to be obviously a very complicated process.
Once it's complete, we will submit it to the UN and a process will ensue. But we believe that, under any circumstances, the amount of territory that Canada will be able to oversee going forward will be very considerable. We're very hopeful that from a fisheries perspective, but also from a general economic perspective—oil and gas and minerals—it will bring substantial benefits to Canada.