That's a largely unexplored area, I would say. We have the Nunavut land claim, which deals with the Nunavut settlement area and of course includes the internal waters territorial sea. They have management arrangements for that area. When you move beyond the national jurisdiction, then clearly Canada has all the rights under national law to make its claim, which we'll do in December of this year, we hope. Then that claim will eventually become legitimized.
Under a formula under article 82 of the Convention on the Law of the Sea, there will be a resource-sharing formula that will kick in for any minerals that go beyond 200 nautical miles, but that would be shared with developing countries, essentially under the structure of the UN system.
I think there are looming issues there. Should there be consideration of Inuit, perhaps, the contribution...? On the Inuit communities, what's their involvement here? I think it's an involvement issue and also an issue, maybe, of some kind of sharing of resources in the future.
Those are very political issues, but under the Law of the Sea Convention it's clearly under Canada's jurisdiction to make the claim, and there's no mention of indigenous peoples under Law of the Sea Convention, so it's a very state-centric document. There was just a meeting here in Ottawa last week with Inuit responding to the “Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment”. These questions did come up.