Thank you, Chair.
There's so much to touch on. Where to begin?
I'll start with you, Dr. Dawson. You made a really important point about the lack of an Arctic research strategy. I've looked through the recently released defence strategy, which says it's going to advance the goals of the Arctic and northern policy framework. When I look at those two documents and the whole concept of data and data analysis, research and research presence and what Dr. Barnard said about the maintenance of research facilities and their presence, there's no harmonization of that whatsoever.
Would you recommend that the defence strategy and Canada's northern policy framework be linked together with a formal research strategy?