Foreign Affairs committee  On the SPP, I have less to say. Those who say it's dead are probably right. On folding the side agreements into NAFTA, I think that's something that may well be attractive to the United States. As a candidate, Obama talked rather boldly about changes to NAFTA. Obviously that is

Foreign Affairs committee  I have one qualification on getting their attention by being a bad guy. That did not work on the west coast with Pacific salmon. In fact, we overfished in order to punish the United States and we punished our own fishery as a result. I think we have to be very cautious about tryi

Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to move to a slightly different area and something that also concerns me--I believe you'll have hearings on this at a somewhat later stage--and that is the Arctic. I would say to stop being so defensive about what we think the United States thinks about the Arctic, to si

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I appreciate very much the opportunity to speak with you today. I'd like to focus on a somewhat narrower issue, although it's related to some of the things Mr. Grenier has said. It concerns how Canada and the United States settle their disputes. Obviously, y