I think that might be true, but for us to determine your ability to do that we have to understand how the other departments work as well. It's not good enough for you to say you can set this up so they aren't going to happen. We need to know they are going to happen, and we've seen that off the coast of Antarctica, where we lost a cruise ship. According to the admiral I interviewed, who was in charge of the area around Greenland and the waterways there, the most likely accident to occur is with cruise ships. The problem there is that there is not the mandatory control over cruise ships and the kinds of things that would guarantee that these vessels are going to perform adequately in Arctic conditions.
When you look at even the Beaufort Sea, we've had projections that there'll be open water to the pole in 10 years. It seems incredible for someone who has looked at the North Pole on a map for their entire life, when it has been covered with ice, that we could be sailing into that area. There's where we're likely going to have the problems with ships.
I think it's essential that before we move ahead with increasing the area we're proposing to protect here, we understand quite clearly how we're going to do it. If it can't be given now, perhaps we have to integrate that into the bill so that we get the information that the government is simply not putting this forward without a carefully thought-out plan.