For your information, actually, I brought in a private member's bill, the only private member's bill I tabled. It was to recognize mother tongues. There are over 6,500 different mother tongue languages spoken in Canada besides the two official languages. That is a good point you brought forward.
This spring I met with the chair of the Churchill port authority, who mentioned the fact that there was literally no framework for environmental regulations developed by the government. The Arctic will get more port traffic in the coming years, and there is also very little planning done on how to drive economic development in this particular region.
Could you comment on that? Would you say that any plans around the defence strategy have to be part of the broader and more comprehensive strategy for Arctic development?
