That is a very good question, and in fact it's something that's been preoccupying successive governments of Canada: how we deal with protection of our north. That is precisely the reason we are so active in the discussions of the International Maritime Organization with respect to developing the standards that shipping will use in all northern, Arctic countries.
Shipping companies are thinking 20 years ahead. When you're looking at building ships—whether you are in Korea, Russia, or Norway—you're thinking about the next 20 years. Governments have to be thinking beyond the next year in order to ensure that what we want as policy for the next 20 years is already in the minds of the shipbuilders. We've been working in concert with the private sector and the shipbuilding industry and transportation in general in the Arctic.
I think we're pretty much of a single mind as to how we should be doing it. Canada's extension of its Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act to the 200-mile limit was part of a strategy of this government to ensure that we have the utmost control about who comes into our area. Not only that, but with the concert of the other countries in the Arctic, we have a pretty strong like-minded group that wants to achieve similar standards. I think this is one area where we are actually ahead of the game.