So you're looking at the northern side.
On the search-and-rescue side of your responsibility, General Loos, you mentioned the Arctic. I guess there are two kinds of search and rescue. The preparation in the Arctic seems to be for potentially a maritime incident in which a ship has run aground or we need a response at that level.
We had a plane crash in the Arctic, as you know, and very fortunately, it happened at a time when Operation Nanook was there. We had assets and personnel on the ground, but aside from that kind of incident, it is generally thought that we have inadequate search-and-rescue capability that far north, in terms of individual rescues. For example, in Labrador, people are complaining about inadequate search-and-rescue capability there and inadequacy of response times, with our two-tier system of thirty minutes or two hours depending on the time of day.
It has been suggested that when we're looking to obtain fixed-wing SAR, we're leaving it to the contractor to decide where assets might be located. That seems to me to be a departure from the perspective of us as a nation trying to determine what level of service is going to be provided in particular parts of our country and how it is going to be provided.
I know you see it from the command point of it, General Beare, but it's something we as a party are certainly concerned about. Where I come from, the people are particularly concerned about it. Is there a plan to improve search and rescue in the Arctic to have a faster air response to an individual disaster, a lost person, or even a greater disaster?