Mr. Chair, when we look at the Arctic, we think about it from a broad perspective. We have an Arctic and northern policy framework that we're co-implementing with provincial, territorial and indigenous partners. This framework is committed to ensuring that the Arctic remains a peaceful and stable region that's grounded in international co-operation. It looks across the various challenges that we see in the Arctic, including environmental challenges, climate change and ensuring the participation of indigenous people in the development of the Arctic. It also includes security and defence.
You have noted in your questions that one of the mandate letter items for the Minister of National Defence and also one of the items on the Canada-U.S. road map, which was agreed to last year after the inauguration of President Biden, is NORAD modernization. That will be a key element of moving forward in terms of defence in the Arctic, as well as many initiatives that are already under way. Those would probably be best discussed by my colleague, the deputy minister of National Defence.