Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I don't disagree. I think Dr. Karen Barnes may speak about UArctic in the next session, so you can definitely ask her questions about that, but Yukon College is involved in UArctic. We have one instructor who does the courses online. I think again that innovation and how we

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. The Yukon Research Centre does have a booth down there. I spoke about the Northern Climate ExChange. Our team works down there because we have worked with the ArcticNet countries, and the ArcticNet is interesting. It is more a course in basic science, not the applied resear

Foreign Affairs committee  It is those partnerships that you speak of. ArcticNet has brought those researchers together globally. I think it's a great venue, but one thing: without ArcticNet, communication around the globe is simple now, and we are forming our own partnerships. This is an added venue, but

Foreign Affairs committee  It started with the gold rush in 1898. There was $40 million of placer gold a year that was taken out of the Yukon. The biggest resources are the mineral resources. West of Dawson City is a new goldfield discovery. This is hard rock, not quartz mining. The Snake River has one o

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly. During the gold rush, in a town of 40,000 at the turn of the century, they fed the people of Dawson from the local fields with large cabbages, things like that. Where we're focusing our research is on greenhousing. We've built a year-round greenhouse that's off grid.

Foreign Affairs committee  In the Yukon, I think we have been very fortunate over the last years. While there is a downturn in the economy in certain areas of the world, the Yukon has been resilient in regard to that, and we have constant growth. We are spoiled up here. The transfer payments from Ottawa t

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, northerners are a different breed. I think we're a little hardier. Climate change has affected us and we are the contributors to it, so we're taken aback by that, but we have to adapt. The policy that is coming forward on the Arctic Council does affect northerners

Foreign Affairs committee  I have been a recipient, and the Yukon Research Centre has been a recipient, of CanNor's funds. I think it is necessary. The north is the future for Canada, and that money has gone to some very interesting and great projects that have not only helped northern Canada, but the ci

Foreign Affairs committee  Everything that I've read about in the blues regarding the witnesses coming up I think is very important. The oil and gas exploration, the alternative energies, are all important, so I can't pick one in general. But this is where I say that innovation and the knowledge economy.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, so I am wearing my pyjamas.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for letting me share my perspective on opportunities and interests today. First, I'll give you a little about myself and my background. I have called the Yukon my home for 42 years. I grew up in Whitehorse. I graduated from high school in Whitehorse. Like most Yukon s