I'd like to move to a slightly different area and something that also concerns me--I believe you'll have hearings on this at a somewhat later stage--and that is the Arctic. I would say to stop being so defensive about what we think the United States thinks about the Arctic, to simply go ahead and act as if the Arctic archipelago and the Northwest Passage are Canadian and run by Canada and not be concerned about what the United States says.
On March 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.