I think for the most part successive Canadian governments have treated the Arctic as Canadian inland waters and have not necessarily welcomed NATO involvement specifically in the Arctic, as we ourselves try to wade through a number of issues.
I'll give you an example from a question of smart defence. As you all know, Canada did pull out of the alliance ground surveillance system this year. These were the drones that NATO was going to purchase, and they became difficult to justify. We thought it was difficult for Canadians to justify contributions to smart defence when that entire capability that could be useful in terms of surveillance—surveillance over shores, surveillance of the Arctic from NATO—might have a mission set that would be applied here.
In the 60-odd years of NATO, I think the sum total of NATO common funded investment in Canada is a navy pier at Halifax, and only once have NATO assets made it over to North America: post-9/11 when the AWACS were brought over, and a very minor contribution after Hurricane Katrina. So there is a sense that we're not necessarily getting the return on investment, and part of that is driven by the fact that, yes, we do have needs like other alliance members and we should be beneficiaries of some of those programs that we fund on our own shores. We just don't see that occurring.
Again, it's trying to push NATO into recognizing that its boundaries don't end at the Bay of Biscay; they end in Juan de Fuca.