Foreign Affairs committee  Is that something that should change?

Foreign Affairs committee  This is Parliament.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. You made some incredibly important points, and I'm wondering if you could expand on them just a bit. Obviously, sometimes it's difficult to explain to people what I would call the “so what” questions, as in, “So what? Why should we be concerned about Arctic

Foreign Affairs committee  In your opinion, if we don't exercise our sovereignty up there, are we at risk of perhaps losing it?

Foreign Affairs committee  Outstanding. Would you say we have every opportunity to achieve a significant percentage of our GDP, as Russia has, or is our Arctic different from theirs? In your opinion, is there the same potential in our Arctic to leverage economic growth to that extent?

Foreign Affairs committee  In many respects, we are starting from scratch. It's sort of an overwhelming project. We as parliamentarians want to be able to make a recommendation to government and to citizens on where to start. If you had to give us one piece of advice on which piece of that puzzle to start

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. What a pleasure and honour to have you guys travel all this way to be with us at our committee in person, particularly, so you can give us a perspective on such an important topic. Thank you very much for that. In my first set of questions I'd like to focus

Foreign Affairs committee  In order of magnitude....

Foreign Affairs committee  Would that have a positive impact?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to move into the sovereignty and security area. Are you finding an increased threat or jeopardy to Finland's sovereignty and security? If so, could you give us an idea of what perhaps you would want to see done about it, and how, if at all, the Arctic Council has a role

Foreign Affairs committee  Recognizing that we all are parliamentarians and it is delicate diplomacy, your physical location close to your neighbour.... Of course in our Arctic we are seeing the increased military presence of Russia and China. I'm wondering if you can comment on any changes in that from a

Foreign Affairs committee  All right. Would anybody else want to weigh in on that?

Foreign Affairs committee  Go ahead.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.