That model will involve people from the government--from Foreign Affairs, National Defence, Indian Affairs, and Environment Canada--and their counterparts in the U.S. Basically, these committees, like the PJBD, are made up of official people, not of those from outside.
Scientists can always act as counsellors. Obviously we could create some committees to study a question in particular.
Another problem we have with Arctic issues is that we are oversensitive about this, and people react too strongly regarding the conflict there. We are forgetting--what you said is really important--that there's a lot of cooperation at the ground level. Canadian officials and the Canadian military are constantly working with their counterparts in the U.S. We're not talking about this because it is informal or because there is a memorandum of understanding. This is important. I think we should build on this and give them a more elaborate structure.