I would agree with you, sir, on that, and I would suggest that two locations, Yellowknife and Whitehorse, would probably have the population base to support small units. The advantage of using populations from those two centres is that they are very familiar with the weather conditions. The Arctic is still a very formidable place in which to operate. We've had Ranger patrols operating at minus 100 degrees Celsius with the wind chill factor. If you don't know what you're doing in this kind of weather, any small accident becomes life-threatening. You can imagine an open wound at minus 40 degrees. You have minutes to react to that.
One of the points I made to the Chief of the Defence Staff, back I believe in 2000, was that the regular force army units that were coming up to the north were suffering higher and higher incidences of cold injuries. That's because of a lack of training. The frequency used to be much higher and then it was reduced through various budget cuts. Our army has to be able to operate, as I mentioned in my presentation, any time and anywhere in Canada. We don't train sufficiently in the north to do that.