Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Again, thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. Breukelman, as a resident of Mississauga, I want to congratulate you and Gedex on building this very impressive company with state-of-the-art technology. I think it is a great example to prove the idea that all Canadians can benefit from resource development. There's a bizarre view among some people that somehow when you develop the oil sands or other mineral resources in northern Canada it detracts from job opportunities and development of technologies in southern Canada. I think Gedex is proving that's just not true. Congratulations on the development of this technology. It obviously has great application all over Canada and around the world.
This is something that ties all of you together.
Ms. Grant, you talked about the need for safe navigation in the Arctic.
Mr. Breukelman, you told us that your technology can tell us where there are not economically viable resource deposits. Those are areas that can then be protected for national parks and for tourism.
I think, Ms. Grant, you talked about the growing number of cruise ships in the region. I wonder, among the three of you, if you could tell us what the economic prospects are, both the challenges and the benefits of tourism in the Arctic, how the people of the region can benefit from that, and what needs to be done to make that viable.
Ms. French, you talked about the need for aeronautical and maritime search and rescue. Perhaps you could address what is needed, what the cost of that is in your view, and what opportunities there might be for cost recovery by providing those search and rescue resources from, say, the owners of super tankers or cruise ships that might be passing through the region.