Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to reinforce that the Quebec National Assembly adopted a unanimous resolution in late 2007 calling on Ottawa to include the region in the Arctic strategy.
The Inuit say that sovereignty begins at home. With that in mind, reinforcing Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic should obviously entail building up healthy regions or communities. These would obviously require a significant level of economic productivity, self-sufficiency, acceptable levels, trend lines, et cetera.
Can you comment on this notion—that sovereignty begins at home by dealing with healthy regions and communities—in terms of the kind of strategy you would see to assist your part of the country to be much more self-sufficient?