I'm encouraged that the Geneva talks continue on, although perhaps not as fast as we'd like. I'm encouraged by some of the discussions I've held in Washington with experts on something called the Iran Project, with a lot of extremely well-informed, experienced Americans. The objective at the end of the day is to prevent Iran from acquiring the nuclear capacity to turn it into weapons. I think that's an objective of most countries, and Canada is a piece of that. You continue to work at this, but at the same time you have to prepare for the worst, which is why in response to Mr. Harris, I said that if we have access to an umbrella and there are storms coming, you want to use that umbrella.
On May 8th, 2014. See this statement in context.