The biggest negative of the Americans' taking steps, sometimes without our due consideration, is whether they always follow Canadian interests in terms of some of the different defence expenditures they have.
I'll give you one example, which is the American move for an anti-ballistic missile capability. As we go into that, we've seen politically within Canada a series of debates on whether that is in fact the way to go ahead when it comes to the challenges facing the overall strategic balance. In other words, if you have a defensive system, do you undermine nuclear deterrents?
As it turns out, everybody is developing their own ABM systems and that debate becomes relatively moot. In the context of the time, going back to the 1980s and 1990s, Canada was a basic, passive participant in terms of how that was going to play out. That probably stands out as the best example of where Canadian interests may or may not be, but we didn't seem to really have a position that the Americans were willing to follow.