That's correct.
I'll take your second question first. Yes, transit passage means not only the right of navigation on and under water, but also the right of navigation over it as well. It means aircraft. You're absolutely right. I didn't mention that in my answer, but that is another dangerous component, as it were, of that new right of transit passage.
As for your first question, I would not dare.... I study that quite a bit. When we tried to settle the four maritime boundary problems about 20 years ago, I was called an academic in residence in foreign affairs, and I advised the government on these four maritime boundary problems. I wouldn't dare say that we are absolutely right and the United States is absolutely wrong. What is going to happen, I would dare say, is that if we go to the court, it's going to be a line somewhere in between, and if we don't go to the court and arrive at an amicable settlement, it will be somewhere in between.
What we are doing is using the 141st meridian. We say we have been using the continuation of the 141st meridian for quite a while. We say that our legal basis is therefore an historical use of a particular meridian of longitude.
The Americans have a better departing point. The Americans say that it is the median line. Well, this used to be, in the 1958 convention on the continental shelf, the rule. It is no longer the rule. Nevertheless, it is still considered an equitable factor, and because of the concavity of the coast here on the Canadian side, a median line beginning here goes about like this, on the inside.
The beauty of it is that perhaps--and I don't know--it might not be, as we progress, more of a disadvantage to Canada at all. Why? It's because, if you look at a modern geological map, lo and behold, the equidistance line goes like this, but then look at the archipelago: then the median line comes back and crosses the 141st, over to the American side, shall we say.
By the way, I don't think you could find a better description on the map than the last number of the National Geographic. From a legal point of view, I think you will find that chart very accurate.
As I say, I would not dare to answer your question or to make a guess. All I would say is that somehow we're going to compromise on the basis of a number of equitable factors, and I could make a list.