Let me say that it is one of the dimensions of our foreign policy that is uniquely legitimate for Canada--not exclusively Canada, but it brings together across that circumpolar region a very interesting set of countries that can deal with environmental, economic, ecological, and strategic issues, not to mention the way in which our populations--the Inuit in particular--live and are represented across that circumpolar region. I think there is a lot of opportunity and scope for a Canadian volet in the Arctic. In fact, I would suggest that might be something that we want to use our G8 presidency to articulate, because it gives a timely matching of the Law of the Sea commitments with respect to the mapping of the Arctic, around which there has been a lot of hyperbole, with Russia's mapping and Canada's being behind and all of that sort of stuff.
It's one of the ironic areas where Russia recognizes our approach to the Northwest Passage as being an internal waterway, and the Americans don't. It's an interesting set of issues around which I think there could be quite an interesting dimension to our foreign policy.