but i work in the metal industry cameco industry processing industry and we're creating an economy that we pay attention to our copper. you know the story here especially in the gas industry. still have special prices for ukraine for russian gas and ukraine was able to save about ten billion dollars over the past three years due to those special prices about realizing situation on the ukrainian market to be. the result of the international global financial crisis. because the gas prong anough to gus has signed an additional protocol to get in their contract that way and that's the gas chrome will not continue to sell gas at the price so to. sixty eight dollars for a thousand cubic meters which in which they must be because we think this is a temporary solution considering that it would even need to go out in the long term agreements shewed that we'll be. talking about gas supplies to ukraine and also put it to them reliable transit you through ukraine you go to war or you can assume you see in europe a mistake that russia was willing to compromise but. in tension they used to work out t

room today, the head of the americas program and knew that we would need to understand canada and cameco better as they be deeper trading partners and deeper economic progress. he was interested in the economy and policy. he made sure there was the money that we could hire and expand and become the strongest program here. that was how i got to be here. -- how i got to be the junior guy. when i got here shortly after i got here, again with some heavy influence from george, i had the influence on the william simon chair. sidney weintraub. a lot of you remember sydney. 30 years ago he published his famous book, free trade with mexico? he raised the idea that trade with mexico could be a development engine. that would it would help to change the nature of the mexico and u.s. relationship. that was a vision. he saw that after years of working in economic support in the state department. state department ran trade in those days. he really articulated it persuasively so that a generation of american leaders were really thinking about what nafta could do. that made a big difference. there was on