I think you're correct. The minister is correct in that there are some strong elements in Canada, but we need to federate them. We need to bring them together. The Amundsen is a case in point. That's a beautiful ship. I just passed it in Quebec City before leaving. It's heading up to the Lincoln Sea again this year. It's in good shape but it's 45 years old. A typical lifetime for a ship is between 30 and 50 years.
The polar continental shelf program has been in a crisis situation off and on over the 30 years that I've been obtaining support, including this year. It propelled 100 of us to write to the Minister of Natural Resources in distress about the way in which our programs may be coming to a halt as a consequence of a lack of continuity of funding of that critically important agency, and yet at the same time we see other nations scaling up in a large way.