I guess your question about energy was directed to me. I would prefer to see us use Canada's energy supplies as a carrot rather than as a stick. But again, it can be an important carrot set in this broader context that what we need to do is to engage the Americans on the subject of partnerships--partnerships on the environment, on energy security, on physical security, border management, on trade policy, and a whole range of other areas, but with bold ideas.
Also, we need to change the way we deal with the Americans. In recent years we've gotten into dealing with irritants, and our approach is, “Welcome to Ottawa, Mr. President, here's our list of stuff, irritants, we want you to fix for us.” And they go, “Oh, it's the Canadians again.”
I think somebody--I'm not sure who it was--quoted Condoleezza Rice as saying that talking with the Canadians was like a meeting of the condominium association. We need instead to be saying, “Welcome to Ottawa, Mr. President. We both face serious problems, wars on different continents, pandemics, global economic meltdown, concerns about security, about energy, the environment. We're here as part of the solution. We want to work together with you and we have ideas on how this can be done.”