I'd simply like to relay the experience from the National Energy Board's Arctic offshore review in which it was very clear that communities and organizations such as the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the Inuvialuit Game Council were very concerned about the employment benefits and the training benefits that would flow from potential offshore development, in comparison with the risks that their communities would be faced with in the event of a blowout.
The offshore industry is a very technical industry. It's quite normal for many people who are working on the rigs to be brought from far away. I think the issue of training and employment in Arctic communities as regards offshore development is a critical one, and Ecojustice is not necessarily the appropriate organization to comment upon it. I think that it does speak to a broader need to go slowly so that if there is going to be drilling, the employment benefits and the training benefits accrue to northerners. One doesn't have to be a northerner or a representative of a northern organization to see the merit in that approach.