One of the challenges with CHARS—I was involved in some of the earlier consultations about this—is that most of us did not advocate for a single location in the Canadian Arctic. The scale is just too large. We accepted that a hub was useful. Most of us actually recommended Resolute for the hub because it existed with the polar continental shelf based there. Then a series of smaller stations would be established in the communities, run by the communities, where researchers could more easily integrate with those communities. I've worked a lot in these communities. It's challenging to even find housing in small places like Ulukhaktok. It's hard for researchers to get in there and find a place to stay.
Going forward, CHARS exists. It's excellent. However, it would not have been my choice for a high Arctic station. It's mid-Arctic by my standards. Again, it's establishing new research, whereas it really doesn't facilitate much of the long-term research that's going on in many other parts of the Arctic, such as Bylot Island with researchers from Laval. It's very distant. While it's useful, it needs to be replicated on a smaller scale across the Arctic.