Finance committee  Yes. Many of the territorial governments, in terms of their responsibilities to their citizens, undertake research to monitor physical environment, wildlife, and those sorts of things. They too are conducting research on the health and wellness of polar bears and the state of con

Finance committee  Often, and in fact ideally, there are many applications to a single body of knowledge. It should in fact have multiple purposes.

Finance committee  Yes, thank you. I think any individual involved in creating knowledge would say there's always more we could do if we had more resources. I think realistically the first step is to ensure that the existing resources are being efficiently used, and often that is simply a matter o

Finance committee  Specifically in the Arctic, yes, I do.

Finance committee  I'm sorry, I missed the beginning of that question.

Finance committee  Reasonably well, yes. I wouldn't suggest there's any real wastage, but there's always room to improve by sharing of logistics, better sharing of data. Particularly when the area of inquiry is broad and complex in a subject like climate change or the security of a food supply, if

Finance committee  Leaving aside the question of additional resources, even with existing resources, I think we could have richer and deeper scientific understanding and enhanced knowledge by better sharing the information that's already out there. My colleague Dr. Hik certainly referenced that ev

Finance committee  We're pretty good. We're trying to be better. I think with the revolution in social media, we're starting to take some baby steps in sharing it much better and much more broadly, in a much more open way.

Finance committee  Thank you. I will. There's a range of knowledge and there's a bit of debate between traditional knowledge held by aboriginal folks and western scientific knowledge. I think the answer is really that there are many ways of knowing. In fact, there's an area of scholarship about wa

Finance committee  Some of them are semantic. Lining up data from similar machines across the country is fairly straightforward, but lining up observations made by individual observers with perhaps different reference frames is a bit more complicated. A western-trained ice scientist may want to kno

Finance committee  Based on my previous experience, starting in 1999, for four years, in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where I was the chief geologist of a small start-up organization similar to this, we found that simply being on the ground in a northern community made it much more straightforward to reach ou

Finance committee  To summarize, I think it's really a matter of coordinating the roles of those two organizations and frankly combining the resources, human and financial. This proposed merger very much gives us a new opportunity and additional resources to strengthen the work we do in terms of cr

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I am very happy and honoured to be here today. I'd like to focus today on two key points. First, I'll introduce the Canadian Polar Commission and some of our significant current functions. As we move forward, these will be core functionalities f

Foreign Affairs committee  I haven't reviewed it in sufficient detail. But I would simply add that I think the more we have folks looking at the north, engaging with northerners, and trying to figure out solutions, collaboratively, ideas will emerge and an appropriate path will emerge. But I can't comment