I think that may be an opportunity for Canada's chairmanship to focus on the NAFO equivalent in terms of Arctic fisheries. It's an interesting approach. Thank you.
In 2011, Professor Byers, you published an article in Policy Options that, fast-forwarding to the re-election of the Obama administration, may even be more or as relevant today as it was a year ago, in terms of saying there is a pretty broad willingness to treat issues like search and rescue, like environmental stewardship among Arctic nations, as a cooperative foreign policy effort. And I think Professor McRae said the same thing.
There has not been a great deal of confrontation or certainly dramatic discord. If the Obama administration has previously shown a willingness to negotiate or discuss with Russia and Canada issues like search and rescue, access, policing—a whole series of these potential areas of overlap—can Canada use its Arctic Council chairmanship to perhaps drive a multilateral agenda further, to use the goodwill from the American administration and not lose any momentum? Or do we run into what Professor McRae I think correctly noted, that you don't look for too many international fora to resolve it, as you may not like the conclusion? You're perhaps better to simply occupy the space properly, functionally.
You said the same thing yourself with respect to Asian shipping companies.