Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for coming. I'm a Nova Scotian, so welcome, Ted, and it's good to see you here, Ed.
Mr. Zebedee, my first question is about infrastructure.
Over the years, we’ve had various governments and different infrastructure agreements. Most of them are based on provincial instead of territorial agreements. You often see one-third, one-third, one-third. We had an agreement a few years ago on the GST rebate, but the reality is that the whole Arctic area is totally different. You don't have the big GST and wouldn't have that rebate. You have vast territories there, and you mentioned the challenges involved.
You stressed how infrastructure is going to be key to the north’s developing properly and how it can move forward with the rest of the economies south of the Arctic circle.
Sometimes we, as governments, pile all this money into infrastructure for a short time just to help boost the economy. When you're doing stuff up north, of course, you must have a lot more planning because of your short season, the frost, etc.
Do you think it's time that the current government looked at a different kind of an infrastructure deal, not just in terms of money but in terms of having longer-term vision, where we're talking of at least 10–15 years? Does a new deal need to be made because of how the Arctic is opening up and the challenges there? What kind of deal would you suggest?