but also create stability and opportunity and health security for people around the world facing dan pemices, and violence, and issues. these are big issues that canada and the u.s. have always been engaged in over the past decades and centuries, and indeed will continue to. one of the things we highlight is the fact that we have different scales, different perspectives on similar issues, and on shared values is actually a benefit, in that we can compment each other. so i look forward to many, many, many more years of a tremendous and responsible and effective friendship and collaboration between our two countries. [ speaking french ] >> translator: [ inaudible ] the most vulnerable population, canada and the united states are lucky countries [ inaudible ] will always have a lot to do in order to -- to gather the world, and this is what we're going to keep on doing in the years and the decades to come, and we hope in the centuries to come. about president obama, i have learned a lot from him. he is somebody who is a deep thinker, somebody with a big heart, but also a big brain, and for me to