Frank McKenna Negotiate Quotations

It's like playing a game of poker and, if you lose the hand, saying, 'Let's negotiate the pie.' It doesn't work that way. You lose the hand, you pay the money, then you go on to the next hand.

It wouldn't be right to return to the table and negotiate a formal agreement absent a tangible demonstration of respect for what Canada has accomplished in the quasi-judicial system.

If this was poker, we won the pot, and now the U.S. wants to negotiate with us over how to divide it. The time for negotiation has passed.

If that were the case, then why did you bring the appeal? ... Why did you carry it through? It's like playing a game of poker and if you lose the hand, saying well, let's negotiate the pie.