If the eventuality of commercial use of the Northwest Passage is to come, we want to be involved in how it happens. But first of all, we want to make it very clear to everyone that, as we said from the beginning, the Northwest Passage is internal waters. That is a position we are not prepared to compromise on.
The issue for us as far as the passage is concerned is to make sure the international community recognizes that Canada is responsible for that passage and has the responsibility for putting in regulations and measures to make sure that if commercial passage of ships does take place, it has to happen under conditions that are acceptable to the people living up there. We want to be involved in regulating ships. If they are going to use the Northwest Passage, there have to be conditions. We think about the high cost of cleaning up if there were ever any accidents. If oil tankers will be going through that passage, we're extremely concerned about that. If an accident ever happened it would be very difficult to deal with, so we have to put in measures to make sure that if a disaster happens, somebody will pay for the cleanup.