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

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

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

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.