Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Vice-Admiral, for your contributions. On behalf of my party I would add our congratulations on a job well done.
There was an article in The Globe and Mail recently about Chinese businessmen wanting to purchase a golf course. There are some deep military suspicions that maybe the golf course isn't the only intention of the purchase of this, I think, 0.3% of the country. It's only a golf course, but it may have been in some respects a stalking horse for Chinese ambitions in the Arctic. Military officials suspect it's part of a Chinese plan to position strategic assets to be converted to ports and staging facilities.
It seems to be a bit of a game changer as far as threat assessment is concerned, but also sovereignty assessment—your ultimate tasking. While I appreciate that you may or may not be prepared to comment specifically on a golf course that might become a water hazard, I'd be interested in how you see those challenges in the near Arctic at least--and in the far Arctic--changing things and really affecting your ability to be ready to meet those challenges.