Well, the oil companies that were undertaking exploration in the Beaufort Sea came to the government and said they weren't going to wait, that they had the ability, and that they were going to advance the science. If government would meet them halfway, they said, they would provide their own icebreaking services and advance the technology. This happened, and it happened in partnership with the government. Overall it was very successful. Beaufort Sea was a success. It was an economic factor that eventually closed out operations there.
In my visits to other jurisdictions, I have been looking primarily at what's happening in Finland and at Finland's cooperation with Russia. The Finns and the Russians together provide a pretty formidable pairing. You're looking at Russian industrial capacity combined with Finnish technology. The Finns are pointed completely at making themselves the best at producing Arctic or Arctic marine technology. They're very good at it. They're excellent.
If we continue to wring our hands over what we want to do and how we're going to do it, eventually these other countries will completely pass us by. We'll be left behind with an aging fleet of icebreakers, no pursuit of technology, and limited capability to police our own Arctic waters. The companies might take action themselves.