Clearly, the federal government has responsibilities in areas. You talk about search and rescue and the failure on the issue of ports. Obviously, in terms of sovereignty, if in fact we are going to exert our sovereignty, we have to have the ability to do so, and if we don't have those in place, that's clearly not a provincial responsibility. That's clearly the role of the federal government.
On November 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.