Thank you for the question.
Over the last number of years, the government has systematically and assiduously invested in the Arctic and in our capabilities, obviously, from the Canadian armed forces perspective, defence, but also whole of government. I will cite just a few examples.
In addition to NORAD, which we've talked about, and its continuing work in terms of surveillance and awareness and domain awareness, we have forward operating bases up in the high north, Yellowknife, Rankin Inlet, Iqaluit, Inuvik. We have our joint task force north, where we have people deployed. We have a headquarters in Yellowknife. We have the investment in the Arctic offshore patrol ship, which will give us an armed seaborne surveillance capability. Construction will begin in 2015 on that. We have the Nanisivik refuelling facility, which will be up and running by 2017. It's on Baffin Island. We have the Canadian Forces Arctic Training Centre in Resolute Bay. It was opened last August, I'm pleased to say. We've increased the number of rangers we have from 3,000 to 5,000, which gives us eyes and feet on the ground and people who are very familiar with the terrain. We have an ongoing series of exercises. The biggest ones are Nanook and Nunalivut, which you may have heard of. The Canadian armed forces exercise all year, winter and summer, to make sure we have our sovereignty presence and we have the capability. We also established northern chiefs of defence meetings a couple of years ago to make sure we had a venue for chiefs of defence of northern countries to cooperate.
We really have, I think, increased our presence in the Arctic not just in policy terms but in real terms. I would also add that with the RADARSAT Constellation that is supposed to be launched in 2018, Canada will then have four times a day surveillance of the Arctic. It will be the most surveillance and awareness capability of any country in the world.