Transport committee  Yes. Back to the question about what the change might be, I think that's exactly right. The tankers can avoid the ports. If they want to ship in that area, they simply won't ship out of a Canadian port, but they'd still have the right to navigate and ship the contents through tha

Transport committee  On the second question, it depends. I think there are measures, obviously, you can take to respond to that. I referred to the Eagle Spirit, and I think you're going to hear more about that on Thursday. There is a group of nine first nations that are prepared to put in a system th

Transport committee  Yes. The Americans had the right to go down from Alaska, from the Port of Valdez to their refineries in Puget Sound, without our doing anything about it. If we had seen a threat of the Americans going through our EEZ we could have tried to make a case for that, but they had the r

Transport committee  Yes, that's all tankers that are going from Alaska to Puget Sound.

Transport committee  Once you get to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, you're in an international area. That is one boundary that we have defined with the Americans, going back to 1890 and something, and we have an agreement with them there as well, so that the shipping goes in on the American side, I beli

Transport committee  The convention, which I have here, is largely now customary international law. Parts of it were already part of customary international law. This was the third attempt by the United Nations to get a worldwide convention, and they succeeded. It's quite remarkable. The Americans c

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I should say that I've timed my remarks. They're five minutes and 30 seconds, so perhaps you would grant me the other 30 seconds. During my 38 years in the Canadian Foreign Service, I have had the opportunity to work in the department's legal b