My sources for my position are probably a little like yours, which are newspapers and so on, both local and European. Maybe the one light I can add is that I do deal with agencies from Europe, and particularly space agencies in Russia. I can tell you that there's a significant interest by the head of and the rest of the space agency in Russia in cooperating with Canadians to understand the Arctic and to develop the Arctic and, based on the information I read, the resources. There's going to be an economic conflict around resources and the amount of resources in the Arctic. Whether it's going to be developed to be habitat for millions of people, I don't see that. But certainly for resources, I can tell you that the interest from the space guys in Europe is significant.
On May 13th, 2009. See this statement in context.