Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank you, Mr. Boland, for your presentation.
We both come from areas of the country where these subjects are being talked about. I appreciate your presentation.
A few months ago, I went through a northern development report at Natural Resources. Much of this information would have been very valuable there. This is a foreign affairs committee, and the subject is our Arctic policy. It gets a little more difficult because it's foreign affairs. We need to focus on what that means, and that means the relationship with other countries.
I was interested in your very good slide on Arctic transportation in transition. That really does speak to something that we've had to put a rest to, the Northwest Passage as a likely shipping route. You've laid that out pretty clearly for us. We've only had one other witness go into that much detail. Could you expand on that idea here? We saw the Chinese icebreaker go through the polar passage this summer or last. How would you anticipate this moving ahead, this particular multinational route through the Arctic?