Professor Byers, you've done a lot of work on the interface between politics and law, and legal arguments for Canadian sovereignty in the north. Is there a precedent that exists, situations where countries may fail to respect legal decisions, legal rights, once the Law of the Sea is refined or expanded and so on? How do you see us exercising our sovereignty in a circumstance where somebody basically says, buzz off, we're going to do what we want?
On June 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.