As I said at the beginning of my presentation, everything begins and ends with education. To me, the Arctic Council is about providing a forum for us to learn what others in the north have learned ahead of us. Whether there are good, sustainable practices that we can learn from in the north to inform our domestic policy—that's where I see the value of the Arctic Council.
If you talk to indigenous peoples in the north, they don't see the boundaries that we do. They consider the north to be a place that is shared by all indigenous peoples north of 60 or north of wherever. For them, it's not a political discussion; it's a discussion about the land and how we're going to protect it.