Okay. I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Chairman. Let me go directly to the waters of the archipelago of the Northwest Passage.
In 1985, after the passage of the Polar Sea, the American icebreaker that had refused to ask Canada's permission to go through from Lancaster Sound right to the other side.... They refused to ask permission, so after that we drew, in September 1985, as the Soviet Union had done in January, straight baselines around the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Those straight baselines were drawn on the basis not of this convention—we were not parties—but on the basis of customary international law as interpreted and applied in 1951 by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a dispute between Great Britain and Norway. The decision of the court—with, I might add, the concurrence of the American judge Hackworth—was that all of the waters within the baselines were internal waters, through which, I might add immediately, there is no right of innocent passage.
A modification was made in the 1982 convention, which didn't come into force, as I said, until 1994. The modification is that now there is a right of innocent passage. It remains if it existed prior to the establishment of the straight baselines.
I can go into more detail.