Certaines personnes, y compris des gens de la gauche au Canada, se font accuser d'être trop sensibles aux questions de souveraineté, mais la collaboration, par sa définition même, suppose une abdication au moins partielle de la souveraineté absolue.
For someone like you, who has had an awful lot of experience working with the United States in these matters, and obviously you're in favour of various levels of cooperation, what would you say are the kinds of things we have to be on the lookout for, that in your view are appropriate things to be sensitive about? Sometimes people, including people on the left in Canada, get accused of being oversensitive about sovereignty issues, and that cooperation, by its very definition, suggests some kind of abdication of absolute sovereignty.