To the list of concerns you mentioned, I would add economic development, the exploitation of resources in the arctic, like the oil and gas, which is picking up again, and the mining. I think it was the right thing to have INAC try to coordinate the different departments in the Arctic, as long as the Arctic question was not so urgent.
It boils down to this: do we need a more Arctic-oriented body rather than a north-oriented one? This idea of having an agency for the Arctic, or even a full department, has been discussed before. I think if we want to give Canada back its arctic dimension, which has been missing for a long time, then we should study the question of creating a new agency or department for the Arctic.