What we do differently is nearshore work and work in uncharted waters. You might have heard of us because we were the organization that helped find the Franklin expedition.
You need that kind of small Mars-rover type of ship. The big icebreakers can't get into these areas. They can't get into the ecologically sensitive areas where lake water or river water meets the ocean, where Inuit and northern indigenous people actually hunt and fish and are going after seals. That can only be done with shallow draft vessels that are specialized to operate in riskier areas.
As far as we know, we're the only organization that provides these ships, yet we don't get a penny of federal government funding at the moment. One of our main ships is not running this year in Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie River and the Beaufort Sea, which means that science work that needs to be done there.... Two very important marine protected areas are in the Beaufort Sea and the local hunter-trapper organizations in the communities desperately want work done there. They want bathymetry and they want stock assessments because they're worried that, when the quotas revert, it's going to devastate their fishing industry.
Those are some of the areas where we work and some of the really pressing issues we've seen.