With Allied, we were a spoke in the wheel. Now, we are the wheel.

Our responsibility in our new process is to plan how and where around the world we should be taking our California portfolio.

There are some companies that want to grow simply to be bigger, and there are some that want to have growth business. Those points of view, I would argue, are different.

Nothing was decided one way or the other. We talked generalities and about his background, and I spoke about my thoughts on what we needed to get done in Ottawa.

I spoke to President Bush just a few days ago, ... and told him that I was coming here to be with you and what we were going to do today.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.