Absolutely. However you define “Arctic”—you can be more inclusive or less inclusive—for us our homelands are about 40% of Canada's landmass, about 4 million square kilometres. We are the dominant public policy interest when it comes to the creation of a strategy. Leave the politics out of it. If you just look at the space and who lives there, we are the dominant player. We do hope that in the creation of something like this there would be a partnership approach with Inuit in it.
On June 11th, 2024. See this statement in context.