The activities we need to be taking right now are not a significant break from what we've been doing, frankly, since the 1970s at least. It's important to recognize a certain subtlety to the phrase “use it or lose it”. Simple presence in the Arctic does absolutely nothing to buttress Canada's position. An icebreaker sailing back and forth does nothing to strengthen Canada's legal position.
Assets in the Arctic need to be doing something useful. They need to be exercising effective control. It is important to exercise control in the region for legal reasons but also for very practical reasons. We need that capacity to control Chinese, Russian and foreign shipping as they increasingly enter into the region.