The challenges of doing research in the Arctic are enormous. It's much more expensive. We run a fleet of nearshore research vessels, and the cost to run them in the north is huge. One of them, our vessel that gets the most work, is based out of Halifax and transits north every year, so we have 10 to 14 days' worth of cost just to get up there. We have other ships that are kept in the north, but for a ship that large, there isn't the infrastructure to do the maintenance that it needs, at least not in the geographical area where it normally works.
There are other challenges in addition to cost. Of course, these are settled land claims. This is the Inuit and northern indigenous peoples' backyards, so collaboration is key. We can't just start with the universities. We need to start with the communities. They need to have a say in where the funding goes. However, as I mentioned in my remarks, given the administrative burden that they have to go through, the way these funding structures are set up with universities just doesn't work for the north. It's based on a southern way of thinking, and that needs to change. There are a number of ways that it can be simplified, but those details are a bit too complex to go into today—