Sir, I take my orders from the Chief of the Defence Staff, and the Chief of the Defence Staff has told me to conduct more numerous, more complex operations in the Arctic, and we have seen a very substantial increase in both the numbers and the complexity over the last two years.
Your previous question was about the whole of government. It's easily said. It's a buzzword. The implication.... Sir, I should tell you that at an operational level the whole-of-government effort is working well in the Arctic. There is a spirit—I think it's a habit—of cooperation in the way they do business. But our operations have reached the stage where the deployment of the Canadian Forces in any numbers over strategic distances into an immensely austere environment is an operation. But once we're there, the capacity for us to provide the bedrock, the catalyst, upon which whole-of-government exercises can occur is the whole basis of the thrust in what we're doing.
There was an operation last summer, Nanook. I think folks have talked to you about that previously. The operational phase of that is only half of it. The exercise portion of that is immense.