Thank you. We know that Mr. Stoffer is only just warming up.
Thank you, Mr. Wiseman, for coming before us. You have declared yourself passionately on this issue, and you and your colleagues have been vocal in your array of criticisms that you have raised on the treaty. In fact, you've raised so many criticisms that it's almost difficult to follow them. I'm going to focus on the one that I think is the primary one, but before I leave the point about the numerous ones you've raised, it makes me curious that you could find fault with so many different things that have been so stoutly defended, not only by DFO but also by experts.
Let me focus on the question of sovereignty. We had before us just last week Phillip Saunders, who's the dean of Dalhousie Law School, and Ted McDorman, a professor of law at the University of Victoria, and we spent some time on sovereignty. I've just been given a definition of sovereignty from a dictionary: “supreme and independent power or authority in government as possessed or claimed by a state or community”.
Now, on the first of several points, Mr. Wiseman, there's no doubt that there's a requirement for Canada's consent for any foreign power to enter our waters under the amendments. Isn't that correct?