We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

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.

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.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

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.