The next area has to do with operations in the Arctic.
One witness to the committee last week was Paul Stockton, who has significant defence experience in the U.S. and was responsible for coordinating the U.S. military response to the Deepwater Horizon event. He talked about significant naval assets being used in the U.S., and it being absolutely necessary to have them and to use them in the response to the oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon. He spoke of the concerns about the Arctic and has suggested that one of the most significant threats to the Arctic would be environmental, in the event of an oil spill, and perhaps the most likely....
Do we have any capabilities, at a military level, that could assist in that, or are we just looking at what might be required?