Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
If the report is going to be meaningful and have any chance of being implemented, I think we have to ask our writers to put a timeframe around it and devise an action plan. For example, on recommendation 12, it says:
The Committee recommends that the Government provide proper infrastructure such as shore facilities, mapping and mandatory ice-experienced pilots etc, in order to ensure the safe passage of transiting vessels through Canada’s Arctic waters.
Well, a lot of that is already under control through the coast guard. I think that needs to be said.
The people who wrote the report also wrote a response to the recommendations, and a lot of the responses are pretty straightforward. It seems to me that if we're going to implement the report, then we need a timeframe and we need an action plan on the report. Some of the implementation may simply be, as a committee, that we agree with the recommendation, because the recommendation, for all practical purposes, is already in place. That way, I think we ensure that the report then gets a little further involvement with people rather than just at the committee stage. It actually gets to be a working document.