If the negotiations were to break down totally and we were to be starting from a different vantage point, can anyone imagine the economic impact to Canada? Is this something anyone has put a dollar value on? And if we simply break down and don't restart the negotiations, and if they should fail for a number of years, would we be better off going forward with the current agreement, which is in an expired mode, but continuing under those terms? Would we be better served under the current terms than a bad deal going forward?
On February 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.