Thank you.
I just have two questions. One is going to be on CFCAS research that is being cancelled, and the other is on the Beaufort project. Before doing that I just want to make four quick comments.
Mario brought up a good point about data in the north. Anne McLellan announced $150 million for the International Polar Year, but that's almost run out or almost over. We want to make sure that the data collection keeps going in the north. And the Arctic Council is proposing a whole new body, and I certainly hope you'll be supporting that so we will have permanent data there.
You mentioned search and rescue, and DND has a big problem there because there is not a single search and rescue plane north of 60, but we're dealing with an attitude that it's their problem.
You mentioned that dispute in the Beaufort Sea was well managed. I disagree, but we'll get into that with Foreign Affairs, too, because I think it's their file.
My first question relates to the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. I've dealt with this in two speeches now in the House of Commons. The fact is that their funding is going to be cancelled. We're going to lose 24 research centres, including PEARL right up in the far north of the Arctic, 400 scientists and hundreds of students, all of the climate change research, the research on drought, and the research in arctic communities, on which I have all sorts of e-mails from professors.
The facilities you're putting in are great, but as someone said in the House of Commons, it's going to be like having a parking lot, because there are no drivers for the cars. There will be all of these facilities and no scientists. It may not be your department, so I hope your department, as a champion of the north, is being responsible and is lobbying to get those funds reinstated, so that this valuable organization and the research they're doing—the only research on violent arctic storms and climate change—will continue.
Do you want another question?