Thank you.
Well, it's a challenging question, for sure.
First, I would note that the situation with Russia is a great detriment to Arctic science in general, because we—as I'm sure this committee is well aware—have now lost access to a lot of very critical scientific information that allows us to work on improving climate models, projections and all of those things.
I think it's important for us, as a nation, to build strong partnerships on Arctic research with like-minded countries in the Arctic. I will speak a bit about why I think that's important with respect to research infrastructure.
As I mentioned in my comments, we have a lot of research infrastructure in this country, but we don't have all of it. We work in partnership with our collaborators. I'm thinking of Germany, for example, with their research vessels that Canadian scientists are able to work on. I think the problems we face on a pan-Arctic scale are too big for any one country to tackle independently, so co-operation is key to understanding the whole system and where that system might go. With the absence of Russia, and the absence of information coming out of the Russian Arctic, the only way we're going to get close to having some sort of comprehensive understanding and pan-Arctic solution that can be applied is through co-operation.