Thank you kindly, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Roussel, let me start by thanking you for a most informative presentation. I'm delighted to welcome a fellow colleague from the École nationale d'administration publique.
I want to give you an opportunity to follow up on what you were saying about Canada's tone and attitude when it comes to the Arctic. In fact, you mentioned during your presentation that military threats aren't an immediate threat or, at least, aren't something we should be overly concerned about right now. Previous witnesses have expressed similar views to the committee.
In fact, Mr. de Kerckhove, of the CDA Institute, told us that the Arctic is one place where stakeholders have no choice but to cooperate, on search and rescue missions, in particular.
What I gather from your comments is that Canada's aggressive position on the Arctic could hurt that cooperation going forward. Is that a fair assessment of what you said?