Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and through you to the witnesses, thank you for appearing before us today. This has been lots of food for thought, but I'm going to shift some of the questioning now. I'll start my first question with Ms. Welsh.
The Arctic and in particular the Canadian Arctic is increasingly attracting a fair amount of international attention vis-Ă -vis natural resources, the melting of the ice, etc., and there are, of course, other Arctic nations who would wish to share in some of this in the region.
What role, if any, do you think there is for NATO in the high north, whether in establishing a base or in conducting training exercises? Could we have perhaps a minute and a half of discussion around those kinds of strategies?