Australia and Canada are already long-standing partners. As Wesley Enoch, your esteemed director of the Sydney Festival recently noted: “Canada echoes Australia and we echo Canada. We are like mirrors in so many ways.”
Infrastructure connects our communities, takes people and goods where they need to go, and allows us to communicate with each other productively and effectively.
Thank you, Elizabeth [Cannon, Board Chair of Universities Canada and President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calgary] for that kind introduction.
Thank you very much for that very warm introduction; and thank you very much everyone for being here. I'm really pleased that everyone is here to engage in this conversation about trade.
We meet once again in uncertain times, when global and regional security are threatened. I will focus on four major issues for Canada: the fundamental principle of territorial integrity, conventional arms control, human rights and respect for diversity.
What an incredible honour to be here tonight as we celebrate His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
On behalf of Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau, the Government of Canada and all Canadians, I pass along our best wishes for a very happy birthday: O'tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu [We wish you a happy birthday]
Peru could not have chosen a better priority topic for all of us than food security, which is without any doubt one of the critical challenges of the 21st century.