Foreign Affairs committee  We're just going to be doing one project at a time, and one thing, otherwise, it's never going to get done.

Foreign Affairs committee  This is exactly what I'm talking about. We need to do this.

Foreign Affairs committee  No. That's what I'm saying. We need to put this all together. I would have to go and ask.... I know the people to ask. There are numbers. There is Tom Hoefer. There are people who do mining and the mining association. I'm sure he has a number of what he thinks the mining pot

Foreign Affairs committee  We have pieces that are not put together.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, and this is what I have been trying to do and look forward to doing.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, but this is where—

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, because I am. I'm working with the territorial government. I'm working with a lot of the indigenous development corporations, and a lot of them have equity. They want to figure out how to bring their equity into these projects and have equity shares. They want to own this in

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that it's getting two birds with one stone or whatever. There has not been a feasibility study done that I am aware of, and I think there should be. I can get into more about the discussions I've had. I've been working with a former lieutenant governor of Alaska on

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, this comes back to the discussion and what I was saying. Someone has to start the narrative and get it out there that the North American Arctic together works better because they're very connected—seeing it as an emerging market. Perhaps you're saying to go internationally

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, and as part of that, there could be ways to generate revenue if you create some sort of Alaska-Canada regime. I'll use a Google example. Google is trying to create this Loon, right? It doesn't have to be Google. It could be anyone else. I've had someone come to me who does

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that you really have to take the historical aspects into consideration. The governance issue is very different, I would say, in northern Canada than it is in Greenland. Greenland has great aspirations but complete territorial sovereignty. I'm not sure if that's where

Foreign Affairs committee  I would also argue, however, that you can have a policy that makes broad strokes. We believe in the people in the north, we believe in sustainable development, and we believe in our sovereignty. I'm talking about a specific kind of strategy that would lay out—I don't know, but we

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely it would, because private investors need to know that there's a commitment and an overarching strategy with the Canada Infrastructure Bank. In one of these past Senate hearings, looking at the northern corridors project, the way it was described was that at the mo

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say, take them into account as a project would anywhere else in the world. There's an environmental factor whereby you have to do an environmental assessment for any project anywhere in the world. You have to build in those risks and you have to build in the long-term asp

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. It's a fantastic question. I'm not smart enough to get into the weeds of how things work, especially as I'm not originally Canadian. My first thought would be, is it possible to create some sort of bipartisan or tripartisan or multi-partisan committee? What was sugg