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

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.

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

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

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.

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

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.