Good afternoon, and thank you very much to both of you for being here today.
Ms. Lalonde, I'm going to start by quoting something you wrote:
The U.S. government has clearly expressed its fear on several occasions spanning more than four decades that recognizing Canada's sovereignty over the Northwest Passage “would be taken as precedent in other parts of the world.”
How broad would this precedent be? Would it be more or less impactful because the United States has not signed UNCLOS?