Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

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.

Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.