Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll share my time with Mr. Payne.
Thank you for taking part of your day to share your insights through the questions the committee has asked you. In that vein, I have a couple of questions.
First, what is the purpose of these kinds of flights, as you see it? Is it to teach pilots navigational skills, or is it for some sort of tactical operation? When we look at countries, we know that Russia has a massive amount of northern area, as Canada has. Why would an aircraft have to get close to an international line? I'm not sure why that would happen.
Second, if there is no communication link today, do you not think it would be a good idea to start to make a communication link with Canada and the U.S., similar to the American linkage, so that we don't have incidents turning out very badly and things happening that shouldn't happen simply because we haven't talked to each other?