Absolutely, it's a lack of focus on the Arctic.
Great Slave Lake is ecologically one of the most important places in this country. It's the canary in the coal mine, and it's extremely productive in terms of animals. That's where you go to find out how fresh water is flowing into the Arctic. You look at Lake Winnipeg or Lake Ontario and they've been studied to death, but Great Slave Lake is barely mapped at all.
Our most recent research vessel that we just deployed is in Great Bear Lake. It's the first research vessel in Great Bear Lake—period. There have been no studies done there. This is just on inland lakes. This isn't even getting into the ocean.
We have studied lots of the traffic ways through the Northwest Passage. Those are well charted with the big icebreakers doing that work, but that's not where people are out fishing and hunting. That's not where you have the mixing of the sediment from the different regions. It's critically understudied.
Part of the reason we've been successful is that our work is in five-year to 20-year cycles. It's long term—not just going in for a year or two or three and seeing what happens. You need to have that long-term stable research in order to really get useful information. That's really challenging under the current funding models.