Yes. If these ships go through under Canadian law, they reinforce the Canadian position that these are our Canadian waters. If they go through in violation of Canadian law, then we get into trouble, but nobody's doing that. I would think that the outlook is going to be for ships to conform to Canadian regulations, which are increasingly inseparable or indistinguishable from the regulations that would be used if the Northwest Passage were actually an international strait.
In other words, the difference between what would be done under a strait regime and our own internal waters regime is vanishing. There's less and less reason for anybody to want to go to court, to take Canada to court on these things, because in a court of international law I believe we would come out well. In fact, we would be able to say that this is a frivolous case being brought before the court. What we do is exactly what would be done--or pretty close to it--under the international law of the straits regime.
My guess is that, one way or another, the Europeans are not a problem. We are not going to court. That's my view of it. Unless somebody makes a very bad mistake, we don't need to worry about going to court. This is not a legal matter finally now; it's a political one and a commonsensical one.