Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think this is a really important issue. I firmly believe there is a tremendous role and it is a very effective argument currently that's been advanced by.... I've done some reading on some of the work that I think came before the Senate committee on this. I forget the law firm that was doing some work on the issue.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have government agencies such as Public Safety and we have the Canadian Armed Forces responding. We have the RCMP and other agencies that respond to disaster, to events. There isn't as much opportunity for those in the north to exercise their own agency in ways that are part of that disaster response scenario, particularly on a large scale.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I didn't get that in translation. Could I have a translation of the question? I caught the gist of it but not much at the end.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is a good question. Thank you. I will begin by saying that there is not a total lack of understanding of what I would call human security, which is this broadly defined way of seeing security and safety in the north as related to the spectrum of climate change, increased human activities and environmental changes that are happening rapidly.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a great question. If we say the horse is out of the barn, maybe some of the reports are already collecting dust and we won't be able to go back and dust them off and hand them out. I've seen some really interesting models being used in northern education in the institutions that are there.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Again, although I'm by no means an expert in community policing, I do understand there are several ways to approach community policing from an educational and training perspective. I know in my experience with northern Canada that's a little thinner on the ground than in the southern parts of Canada.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I think in giving a sense of the goals, the point of policing, the objects of policing, the problems...these are local, these are culturally contextualized, and they have to be addressed from local community cultural perspectives. They will be quite different from community to community.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I was actually hoping that Heather Exner-Pirot would go first, because she always has, I think, more interesting and more informative things to say than I do. I'm speaking from the perspective of an educator, somebody who has been involved in the delivery of courses, particularly through UArctic's circumpolar courses, and who works at an institution that has a focus on educating about the north, but not from the perspective of the north.