Mrs. Shelagh Grant at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On November 29th, 2012. See this statement in context.

November 29th, 2012 / 10:30 a.m.

Adjunct Professor, Canadian Studies Department, Trent University, As an Individual

I have just a quick comment. Yes, I do know of it, and it's wonderful.

I think that in Canada we forget we are so far ahead of technology in the Arctic. Their infrastructure hasn't caught up with us. It always happens. In World War II it was the Americans who had the technology well in advance of us. This is one thing. We have to get those ships, the infrastructure, to support that wonderful technology.

NORDREG has done an absolutely superb job of monitoring shipping traffic—it's unbelievable—in their new centre up in Iqaluit. We should be telling the rest of Canada about what they're doing.

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