Thank you.
The United States is set up a little differently. It's useful looking at how they organize their affairs. But I don't think it's a model we could adopt or should adopt.
The issue for me is not just the sustainability of the resources—and I don't just mean financial resources but the human capacity and the relationship among organizations, the infrastructure and logistics to work in the Arctic—it's also about the way that we allow those organizations to coordinate their own priorities. That can come through discussion and dialogue. We're hopeful that the Canadian High Arctic Research Station initiative could provide a focal point for that to take place but that will evolve over a longer period of time.
I know you heard from the Canadian Polar Commission in December. Perhaps there was some discussion of the role that an organization like the Polar Commission could play in helping to facilitate the discussion among departments, not just federal departments but with other academic, northern industry partners, as well. That's the need: to make sure it doesn't just stay within government but includes other stakeholders as well who are very active in Arctic research in different ways.