That's right, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
In my opinion, the decisions affecting the North will have to be based to a large extent on scientific data. I will quote from a report which I read in an English paper. I will read it in English, because I haven't had the time to translate it and I don't want to get it wrong.
Apparently, at the UN, there is a body called
a UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. This commission grants undersea territorial extension. They just gave up 230,000 square kilometres to Norway, and this is pushing the legal position of Norway to 550 kilometres from the North Pole.
At the moment Canada and Denmark are mapping the undersea area near Lomonosov Ridge and the northern coast of Ellesmere Island. Claims will be overlapping near the North Pole with Russia, along the Mendeleyev and Lomonosov ridges.
I know that Natural Resources Canada produces the most beautiful maps in the world; they are very colourful. Do you think you could send a map to the clerk so that committee members know which country is claiming what and what the timelines are? Do you have such a map? If so, could you send it to us? If not, where could we get one? I'm sure it exists.