Many departments and agencies are involved in supporting different aspects of Canada's Arctic science activities. Many of those organizations, like Polar Knowledge Canada, have frameworks or strategies that are focused on particular topics.
What I think you're asking is whether there should be a national Arctic strategy.
Within the Arctic and northern framework policy framework, there are a number of goals and sub-goals that specifically address research requirements. I think what's important, and what we've learned over the last years, is that those need to be co-developed with northerners, with the territorial governments, with indigenous organizations, with communities and with the various bodies of the land claims and rights holders agreements.
I don't think it's as easy as it sounds to just say that we're going to create a national policy, because there are regional and local nuances as well.