I would refer all of the committee members to a very good paper in the second volume of our report by Don McRae, who is one of Canada's most distinguished international lawyers. It's a paper that's focused on sovereignty issues in the Arctic. Let me just summarize what his argument, and the main argument of our report, is.
When it comes to sovereignty over the land, it is not contested, period. The issue has been one of transit rights in the Northwest Passage, and since 1988 we've had an agreement, in effect, to disagree quietly and privately on that issue.
The main challenge, I think, for Canada is to stop worrying about property rights and to start getting responsible about stewardship in the Arctic. The Arctic, and particularly the waters of the Arctic, are, at the end of the day, part of the global commons. Working with the United States and the other circumpolar countries, we have to start getting a stewardship regime in place that will address mounting environmental problems in the Arctic—which don't respect national boundaries—and the issue of marine stocks, which, again, don't respect national boundaries.