Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for Professor Fergusson.
You drew an analogy between two events going on at the same time in 1972, the U.S. mining of the entrances to a harbour, which could have led to an escalation between the U.S. and the Soviets and, at the same time, the détente that was initiated through the talks between Brezhnev and President Nixon.
Can you think of any non-great powers that have successfully initiated a détente between great powers, because that example is not analogous to our situation here in Canada?