I think this is a really important issue. I firmly believe there is a tremendous role and it is a very effective argument currently that's been advanced by.... I've done some reading on some of the work that I think came before the Senate committee on this. I forget the law firm that was doing some work on the issue. I think, first of all, that people have to understand. It has to be known that this comes under the sorts of conversations we've been having about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, on the rights of indigenous peoples to participate in conversations, because they are indeed sovereign of their territory, and they have had that right since time immemorial.
To reassure you that I think there is tremendous support for this, I went to a conference in Australia and said something about the archipelago being ceded from Britain in 1880. One of our big defence leaders—I won't say who—was there and stood up to say, excuse me, just to note—and he was right—the Canadian archipelago and the Northwest Passage are Canadian, because Inuit have lived there since time immemorial. I think the message is there. I think the idea is to continue to vocalize and challenge this notion that the rights of Inuit people in the Northwest Passage and archipelago area are constrained by documents and attitudes towards the role of indigenous people that are probably set from deliberations in a different century.
I don't know if that's helpful.