Thank you, Chair.
Thank you very much for coming in here today. Mr. Bradley, I would like to ask you a few questions first.
I spent a little bit of time in the Northwest Territories when I was a much younger man and I was impressed with the vastness of the area up there and the large distances between the communities. There are a lot of issues pertaining to the Arctic and subarctic regions when it comes to development.
It's one thing to build a dam in the Rocky Mountains and then have your transmission lines going around. We can put transmission lines anywhere; it's amazing what we're able to do. We go through all kinds of terrain, crossing rivers, and so on, and it's great stuff. But there are some challenges in the Arctic and subarctic if you're going to do this. There's permafrost, and there are other types of issues.
For the benefit of the committee, could you speak to some of those challenges, and to the nature of the environment up there that might make it difficult to do some kinds of larger developments, especially when it comes to transmission?