Certainly Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Trudeau did a not insignificant amount of work in Canada's north. I think it started, frankly, with Mr. Diefenbaker, but as my colleague from Yukon said, Mr. Trudeau's government did a good amount in this regard. Having said that, a significant amount of work went in during the eighties and the early nineties with respect to the creation of Nunavut, and there was a bit of a lost decade there.
One of the things we have to do a better job on, whether it's involving armed forces or coast guard, is planning well in advance for capital acquisition, particularly for the larger size.... You don't build an icebreaker overnight. Even a small ferry used, for example, between Toronto and Toronto Island by the Toronto Port Authority can take a full year to build, and you have to make sure you get it built in time to get it out before the ice goes.
I think we have to do a much better job in planning and foreseeing what equipment is going to be needed, so that we don't scramble to play catch-up. That has certainly been the case with a lot of major equipment.