I won't speak to the multinational model. I don't think that's in our purview right now.
However, as I said, we have had discussions with various provinces at the level that they provide mapping services to their clients, who would love to cooperate with the private sector and other government jurisdictions in order to be able to put a plan together for a national strategy that includes the north, which is a very big part of that.
There are definitely a number of different models that could be pursued. The private-public partnership is one of them. There have been a couple of other models that have been adopted in other jurisdictions as well.
It still needs more discussion and some more research into that, but our membership believes it is something that is completely doable if we're all on the same page talking about the same strategic objectives across the nation. I think right now we're not quite sure what all of those are. And that's actually what one of our recommendations is, to find out exactly what all the needs of the users are without making those assumptions first. Once we understand that, then we start moving into how we can fund this, and how we can make it work as a model so that everybody benefits.
As I said, I don't think any of our members are advocating free data or free information. What they would like--to build on what Dr. MacLean said--is access to it. It's a shame that we're talking about all of this technology and all of these sensors, but I'm not sure everybody in this room can get on their computer and access that information to answer some of the questions that have been asked today. And I think that's what we should be striving for across the board.