Thank you, Mr. Chair.
What I've been hearing from most witnesses over the last few times is that there's no big challenge, as far as the international community is concerned, with respect to our sovereignty for our northern waters. We had a bit of a drama with our Conservative defence minister that the Russians are coming and all that stuff. There was that little flash, but at the end of the day, I don't think that's the big threat I hear from the witnesses.
Let's talk about domestic waters. Ms. Grant, you mentioned a couple of things. One was from the Churchill perspective, that Churchill could become a real port of export. Who knows: there could be a pipeline going from Alberta to Churchill and you could be loading up oil and gas there and going all over the world. Then you mentioned also that the Chinese might be leading a convoy with an icebreaker up front.
Should we have special regulations for just our Arctic waters, different from the seaway, where we say this activity's going to be happening, so we need special-hulled ships, and they have to travel at a certain time? Do we need a different protocol or regulation within our own domestic waters, so that when we get the ask from the oil companies or the Chinese, we can say, “That's fine, but here's the scoop”?