Absolutely, yes.
One of the last projects I was involved with when I was in uniform was a future look at the navy. One of the key recommendations was that every ship built in the future for the Royal Canadian Navy should have cold-weather capability. Currently, they do not. This third ocean is a national responsibility. The navy cannot ignore it and an Arctic and offshore patrol ship is a pickup truck, but it is only a pickup truck. It needs to be supplemented and integrated into a bigger fleet plan thay more tightly coordinates the navy and Coast Guard activity in the High Arctic. We don't have enough resources to meet this with any one fleet. They have to be integrated much more closely and practise at working collaboratively in Canadian Arctic operations.