National Defence committee  I can answer that question. I teach regularly at the Royal Military College of Canada distance learning program, which is an excellent program, particularly at the undergraduate level. My students tell me—they are often married couples, and they have kids—that their priority is

National Defence committee  Also, I think about consultation and capacity building to increase the rate of infrastructure construction in the north. The northern population is growing. There are a lot of young people of working age who want to work. I think that the training provided—increased training and

National Defence committee  I would look at China. China is building icebreakers. China is looking at the north for resource extraction, from fishing to minerals in the seabed. I think that's more of a long-term threat to Canada and North America than the Russians are at the present.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak on the subject of Arctic security. My perspective is that of a former military practitioner and an academic with three decades of study and publishing on defence resource management issues. To give you context of my background, I retired fro