There are three priorities, because they are immediate questions and problems.
The first priority is scientific research. The sea bottoms must be mapped because we need to know that environment. Consequently, the scientific research conducted, in part, with the support of the Canadian Forces must be strongly encouraged.
The second priority is a field that we cannot forget and on which we must focus. We are starting to do so, but we must go further. That is the social aspect. Northern communities sometimes experience situations of distress that we in the south vastly underestimate. One of the habits of southerners is that we transpose our fears and concerns to the north, whereas they are not consistent with the situation there. We must pay much more attention to the social and economic aspects of northern communities.
The third priority is the Canadian government's ability to determine what is going on in that region. It must know who is going into the region, who is likely to be there and whether the government is in a position to know at a specific time what is going on in a very specific area of the Arctic. That means knowledge of the area on a daily basis. That is the third element that should be developed.