Canada Is Preparing To Play

Like Canada, We Very Much Wanted The United Nations To Be A Relevant And Effective Body. But Once Those Efforts Failed, We No Longer Saw Things From A Multilateral Perspective. For Us, Now, It Is Much More Basic Than That. It Is About Family.

These Are Canadian And United States Intelligence And Law Enforcement Offices Who Are Working In Teams And Who Are Using Good Intelligence And Good Law Enforcement To Really Stop The Criminals And Terrorists Before They Ever Get To The Border.

We Know That If Al Queda Or One Of These Terrorist Organizations Were To Get A Weapon Of Mass Destruction From Iraq, That They Would Have No Hesitation About Using It To Catastrophic Consequences; The Potential Is For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Casualties.

Canada And The United States Are Also Working At The World Trade Organization And In Our Own Hemisphere With Negotiations For A Trade Area Of The Americas To Try To Help Countries Create A Positive Climate For Investment And Trade.

Our Ties Are Deep And Long-standing. We Are Dependent On Each Other. And No Matter What The Issue Of The Day, Whether It Be Softwood Lumber, Whether It Be A War In Iraq, We Need To Continue To Work Together.