If I think back to those days, they were obviously shocked by what had happened to them. They were reacting very strongly.
The positive side of what happened in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 is that we did have very strong personal relationships develop at the top. I think that led to an extraordinary degree of cooperation through the original bilateral smart border accord. I think that's what there's an opportunity now to recapture. That's where I take some comfort from the words that President Obama and Prime Minister Harper exchanged in February. That's a necessary signal to start moving things in that direction. Trust is something that builds up over time. I think we do have a substantial record of cooperation over time in a variety of joint initiatives.
From a Canadian perspective, now is the time to try to push for the next layer in cooperation. We have an established record on the military side, a binational command through NORAD. We really need to explore the potential for a binational approach to managing our shared border. I don't think that's necessarily going to happen in a single go. It will take pilot projects. It will take a buildup of trust over time, but I think that's the concept we have to work towards in the short term. It may not achieve its full flowering for 10 or 20 years, but we have to start somewhere. That was the intention of the original smart border accord. You start with manageable chunks and you build up a stronger pattern of cooperation over time.