You bet. I'll deal with the region building question. I go back again to the Barents region, where there has been high activity over the past 10 or 20 years with the Nordic countries and with Russia in particular. That has been fairly successful.
If we look at what's going on in Canada in the same period of time, even if you look at the Arctic Council, for example, we have a reputation as a country within the circumpolar world as being great initiators of good ideas, but as a country we're very poor on follow-up. There are numerous initiatives for which we simply aren't in the game in terms of circumpolar cooperation.
In that support for indigenous participants, for example, through the Arctic Council--referencing that one again--we need to make investments in educational cooperation. If you take the University of the Arctic as one example, we haven't been particularly good at sustaining that.
It's interesting, by comparison, that under the previous government the University of the Arctic was funded at a rate of about 25¢ per northern resident. Under the current government, it's funded at about 50¢, so there is a doubling of funding, and that's appreciated, of course, for those involved in the University of the Arctic. But if you go over to a country like Norway, where they already have post-secondary educational institutions that are cooperating with Russia, and so on, they're spending anywhere from $1.60 to $1.70 per northern resident even though they already have half a dozen post-secondary institutions. So in those kinds of areas, Canada is vastly behind.
For subnational governments, again, small governments don't have the fiscal resources to engage in circumpolar cooperation. You do see that support from Nordic countries and to a certain extent from the Russian Federation as well for their subnational governments to have this kind of engagement.
So we have to step those things up--greater cooperation, of course, with Alaska and greater cooperation with Russia. The Russians are particularly important because the Russians, in terms of region building, do look to Canada. We have very similar geography.