Where I would agree with Professor Byers is that one cannot rule anything out, so to make the assumption that we'll all be in the northern sea route or in the Arctic Ocean and not on the Northwest Passage would be a dangerous assumption to make. On the other hand, in terms of planning, it seems that the likelihood at present would be that the shipping initially will be more in the northern part, in the Arctic Ocean.
But even if there are tourist vessels coming through, that, it seems to me, requires the same kind of domestic planning to be able to manage that waterway as it would if you thought there were going to be larger ships coming through or commercial LNG carriers and so on. That's why I said we should simply go ahead and manage that as internal waters. If what Professor Byers suggests happens, I think it would be wonderful. Having been Canada's negotiator on the Pacific salmon with the United States over two years, I'm not so sure that the Americans necessarily see their best interests as what we perceive to be their best interests. They're very difficult people to deal with, as we found with the Pacific salmon negotiations for a number of years. So as you said, it would be a tough negotiation.
But in terms of priority, I think our priority should not be trying to get the Americans to agree. Our priority should be developing the infrastructure to manage the Northwest Passage for whatever vessels are coming through, and to treat it as our internal waters, not as though we have to ask anyone else for authority to do it.