I have a number of questions. I could probably keep you going for an hour or so, but I only have a couple of minutes here.
Over the last number of years, the work of the Arctic Council has been ecosystem management areas. They've identified 17 of those around the Arctic. They want to see common international standards for those: search and rescue, common international standards; shipping, common international standards; environmental monitoring and reporting, common international standards. Those are all international issues, so the work of the Arctic Council has been to work on issues that are really not tied so much to land as to the rapidly opening Arctic Ocean.
The Chinese have just put an icebreaker over the North Pole. We know that shipping is going to be more about the Arctic Ocean than the Northwest Passage, and that the Russians have just laid the keel on an icebreaker that will keep the Russian route open through international waters, largely year-round.
Yet you say that national issues should be the ones that drive the agenda of the Arctic Council.