I'm not going to speak about who should be in charge. All of us are answerable, through our ministers, for our mandates. There is very strong collaboration in the north, perhaps more than anywhere else in Canada. The organization I'm responsible for, the Canadian Ice Service, is a partnership arrangement between ourselves and the Canadian Coast Guard. Our people embark on Canadian Coast Guard ships and in Transport Canada aircraft flying northern sovereignty patrols.
We don't do anything in the north as a single department; we can't. Our reliance is upon Industry Canada and the Canadian Space Agency to get missions such as RADARSAT-2 up there to provide us with the information required to do our job. There are collaborations with DFO science to try to come up with better models of ice, ocean, and atmosphere conditions in the future to inform us about why things are changing faster than we expected and what we can expect.
I understand what I'm responsible for, and I also understand there's not a chance I can accomplish that on my own.
I hope that is not dodging the answer.