And as a lawyer, you know that those who exercise jurisdiction over an area have a better case.
I'll move to Ms. Stirk.
You talk about the involvement of northerners. In the draft statement from the conference of Arctic parliamentarians, the position was made that permanent funding should be sought and obtained for the permanent participants at the Arctic Council, yet the Government of Canada said it wasn't interested in that.
If you're interested in expanding the role of northerners on the Arctic Council through the permanent participants, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to push for permanent funding for those organizations so they could interact correctly with the Arctic Council, rather than funding simply on an ad hoc basis?