It does to a certain point, but having been in government and having been a minister, I guess to get to a regional policy approach one of the problems you run into is being up against provincial jurisdictions. So in this regard for the region, for the various provincial governments within the region, is there a willingness on their part to come together and agree to get this done? Because that's the only way it'll get done. It's going to have to be like a region, and in order to put the pressure on the federal government and for the federal government to in fact do it, there's going to have to be agreement or at least some sense of going in that direction at the regional level.
On October 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.