Thank you, sir.
I'll pull out a couple of those threads. What my commander here expects of me is that I anticipate and be prepared for any eventuality in the north, whether that be on the safety or security or defence-end of the spectrum, to include some of the examples you gave.
We try to tackle that through a couple of ways. Certainly, we do so through operations and exercises. We get out on our own with our own forces—air, land, and sea. We also bring in other partners, because in many scenarios, especially the safety and security side, we're not going to be the lead department. We'll only be participating if we're asked to come and help as a force of last resort. It makes good sense to have those pre-crisis relationships sorted out at higher levels, and also at my level, across the regional, federal, territorial, and municipal organizations that would be implicated and involved. So we get together with them, we practise, and we have the relationships.
We also have one other forum that I co-chair with the regional public safety rep called the Arctic Security Working Group. Biannually, we get together a couple of times. We draw out on different themes, including, for example, coming up at the end of May, we're going to have a look at oil-spill response to find out what we know and what we don't know, and try to identify gaps and ways ahead on how we can share information and how we can get better.