Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just finished reading a book entitled, "Death and Deliverance," by Robert Manson Lee. It's about the crash and rescue efforts concerning the military herc, in the High Arctic on October 30, 1991. Reading about the herc, the heroic efforts, mixed with the frustration of the rescuers during that 36 hours it took to reach the crash site, which was only 20 kilometres from the base at Alert, it makes one wonder what improvements have been made in search and rescue techniques since then.
What have we learned? Or, rather, what have our search and rescue technicians, the SARTECH people, learned about Arctic rescue?