I would simply observe that whatever decision is made regarding Canadian participation, it is clearly a Canadian decision. That is the understanding here. There is no pressure here. There is no arm-twisting. There are preferences, perhaps, but there is nothing to try to encourage Canada to do something it doesn't want to do.
If the issue is merely—merely, I say, because we know how scarce resources are—a question of whether these funds would be available, I suspect the two governments could work out some kind of arrangement. My understanding is that the problems do not just lie with the funding issue. There is somewhat a difference of opinion with regard to how this joint effort might go forward, and even regarding the estimate of how successful BMD would be, and indeed, what the rules would be.
I would just conclude by saying what people should realize in the United States as much as in Canada is that for a very long time Canadians and Americans have shared strategic decisions to inform their respective governments of serious kinds of threats to the airspace in, as far as I can tell, a totally successful way. There doesn't seem to be much reason that this kind of cooperation and coordination would be stopped or somehow would be prevented from working in the defensive missile area if the two governments want to move in that direction.