 Buenos dias. Good morning. Three decades ago, Canada, Mexico, and the United States made history. With NAFTA, we three Amigos established the world's largest free trade zone. We created millions of jobs. We enabled an extraordinary economic expansion and showed that by breaking down barriers, we could create opportunities for people. Former Canadian Prime Minister Ryan Mulroney, who negotiated the deal, reflected back on what NAFTA has meant for Canada. The benefits have been spread over our entire economy. It helped modernize our economy and got Canadians to be much more outward thinking and self-confident that they could trade with the best in the world and win. That's what free and fair trade does. It opens doors. It expands horizons. It creates the best possible outcomes for people and for businesses. Now, let's be clear, it wasn't just Canada that won. NAFTA was never a zero-sum game. It was always win, win, win. With it, we unleashed flows of goods and services between our economies to unprecedented levels. We quadrupled trade on this continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Over the past three decades, our economy has changed a lot. We've gone from fax machines to smartphones in almost every pocket. That has created whole new sectors and changed the way we do business. We've weathered crises, booms and busts. And most recently, we faced a global pandemic that wrought economic turmoil on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. Entire sectors shut down virtually overnight. Tourism, hospitality, culture. The economy reoriented itself to keep people safe. People worked from home. Businesses underwent massive changes, and our healthcare sector withstood and continues to withstand incredible pressure with workers who continue to be heroes day in and day out. It took its toll whether you were a student, a worker, a business owner, or a parent. That one year in 2020 added a few years to all of our lives. But as people pulled together, we saw the best in one another. And since then, all three of our countries have undergone strong recoveries thanks in part to our strong trading relationships. Free and fair trade has made us resilient and continues to foster extraordinary growth on our continent. Let me give you a few numbers. On our shared 22 million square kilometers, home to nearly half a billion people, we do over a trillion dollars of trade with each other every year. Combined, NAFTA has a higher GDP than the entire European Union. Our integrated continental economy is an advantage unlike any other. We must never take that for granted. A few years ago, you may remember, there were those who attempted to throw the certainty of our trading relationship into disarray. Motivated by protectionist, isolationist, and nativist politics, they were willing to put millions of jobs at stake in each of our countries. Our historic trade deal was in peril, so we reopened it to defend it. In the negotiations, the U.S. repeatedly tried to play off Canada and Mexico against each other. But Canada always believed that our greatest strength was in all three parties negotiating in unison. We understood that North American free trade was about good and fair integration across the continent. Business leaders, investors, labor groups, and workers understood this too. We all held fast to our belief that in the face of economic uncertainty, growth doesn't come by turning inwards and putting up walls. It comes from welcoming new opportunities, opening up to workers and investors, making economic activity easier, not harder. So we rolled up our sleeves, we protected NAFTA and even improved it. More protections for our environment, new opportunities for small businesses, stronger standards for workers, because trade ultimately has to be about people. It's about a nickel miner in Sudbury, a steel worker in Pittsburgh, a carpark manufacturer in Chihuahua, who all have good jobs because our auto-making supply chains are working well. It's about a farmer here in Mexico having easy access to Canadian consumers and vice versa. With food prices going up around the world, it's worth pointing out that NAFTA has helped lower food prices. Without our free trade, billions in import fees will be passed on to consumers. By integrating our economies, we're making them more dynamic, supporting workers, creating jobs, and helping tackle the cost of living. The goal of the NAFTA has been to build an equitable and well-integrated economy on the continent's scale. Faced with economic uncertainty, Canada has always believed that growth doesn't take over, by putting up walls, by putting up walls. Growth comes by welcoming new opportunities, by opening up to workers and investors, and by making economic activities easier, not more difficult. We have protected the NAFTA, and we have improved it. With new opportunities for small companies, better standards for workers, better protection for our environment. This is how we see food prices going up in the world. Without the NAFTA, the situation would be even worse. Without our free trade, billions in import fees would be passed on to consumers. By integrating our economies, we're making them more dynamic, supporting workers, creating jobs, and helping reduce the cost of living. There's a lot of uncertainty now and ahead of us. We're seeing Putin's illegal and brutal invasion of Ukraine that is worsening the global food and energy crisis. People around the world are suffering from hunger and cold right now because of it. We're seeing the devastation of climate change and increasing costs of natural disasters. We're seeing democracy backslide globally and arise in authoritarian leaders. We're seeing fears exploited and young people, like those who attend this university, wondering what kind of world they're going to inherit. These are historic challenges before us, and the choices we make today will ripple across generations. So let's think like people did back when they signed the original NAFTA. They couldn't know all the changes and challenges we would face, but they knew that growing our economies and deepening our ties would give us all the stability and certainty we needed to weather any storm. Not only that, they knew that an integrated economy put us in the best possible position to grab any and all opportunities, including those they couldn't even imagine yet. Now just look at what's happening now. Our global work to tackle climate change is bringing about the greatest economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution. That means booming new sectors and the modernization of traditional sectors. And it's happening at an incredible pace and scale across the continent. And all of it supports and creates good jobs. Let me give you some examples of what that means in Canada. Over the last two years, we've made strategic investments with partners like Arcelor Middle and Rio Tinto that will see Canada produce even more of the cleanest steel and aluminum in the world. This is creating a brighter future for our workers and for the next generations of workers. We're investing in wind, solar, hydrogen and carbon capture technologies so we can produce cleaner energy. Last year, we attracted investments from around the world for electric vehicle manufacturing and critical minerals that have secured around 17,000 jobs. Just last month, GM opened Canada's first ever full scale electric vehicle manufacturing plant re-energizing a community and giving our auto workers even more confidence in their future and in their kids' futures. And we launched a critical minerals strategy because Canada is rich with the resources needed for electric vehicles, clean energy and digital technology. Canada's best in class resource workers are an essential part of the EV auto manufacturing supply chain here in North America. Our workers in our natural resources, the best in the world, are essential. And critical minerals are not only for electric vehicles. Portable computers and smart phones also need batteries. Clean energy sources like hydroelectricity, solar panels and wind turbines need critical minerals. One thing is certain. Canada is ready to be the reliable supplier of clean energy and technology, and that zero world will need. And we'll do it with our North American partners, both businesses and governments. The economy of the future will also be shaped by new forefronts in technology and innovation. It's something that I know the students and scholars at Centro are right at the center of. They're helping shape the innovation economy and the creative economy. And I'm sure there'll be leaders in new sectors we haven't even thought of yet. We need to keep building an economy that works for all North Americans. It creates good middle class jobs of all types and that young people can see their bright futures in. Collaboration is key. It gives our creators, entrepreneurs, farmers and manufacturers access to new markets. It fosters competition, benefitting people with lower prices and more choice. It builds supply chains that are both efficient and resilient. It makes our economies more vibrant and it creates stable economic cooperation among friends, friends who share a belief in equality, democracy and rules based trade. As former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo who implemented NAFTA said, trade by being mutually beneficial gives each party a stake in the well-being of the other. We can never underestimate just how valuable our reliable and stable trading relationships are. They give confidence to investors, to workers and to the people who want to build big things on this continent. Of course, like all friends, we'll have our disagreements from time to time. But overall, things are working very well and Canadians see that. That's because we've worked hard to make sure that the benefits of economic growth are felt across the economy. And that's really important. During economic growth, we must pay attention to the advantages of this growth. Of course, some sectors will benefit from trade more than others. That's why we must reinvest the benefits of this growth in people. We must invest in education, in healthcare, in social programs that help vulnerable people. We must orient our prosperity to emerging industries in order to create new jobs and opportunities. We must grow our average class in order to make our economy more resilient and more stable. We need to grow our middle class so we can have a more resilient and stable economy. This isn't just good for people. It's good for businesses. When the benefits of growth are tangibly felt in our communities by the citizens who vote for the direction of their country, businesses thrive. A more stable society is one where people with good jobs trust that those good jobs are going to stick around. And businesses, in return, benefit from the generations of workers who bring knowledge, dedication, and pride to their jobs. Businesses are implanted within communities and when people feel that loyalty and share in the benefits of growth, they are loyal in return. A more fair and optimistic society is one where bottom lines are stronger. But of course, when the world is uncertain, it's human nature to look inwards to feel the pull of protectionist urges to want to hunker down and let the storm blow past. But as governments and as leaders, we need to be wise enough to recognize that giving in to those voices is not the way to overcome our challenges. Putting up trade barriers is putting up barriers to growth, and that doesn't help anyone. We three countries, of all the ingredients we need, to be successful. And by working together, we can continue to unleash the enormous potential in our people and in our resources. Canada is a trading nation. This is a truism that goes back hundreds of years to the earliest interactions between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, when trappers traded food, the furs for food, and other goods. And it remains true today. We have free trade agreements with 51 countries and are the only G7 country to have a free trade agreement with every other G7 country. We have investment treaties with all 28 EU member states. And simply put, Canadian businesses have preferential access to two thirds of the global economy. It's easy to see why so many countries want to do more business and count. We have the most highly educated workforce in the OECD, a sound financial system, favourable tax rates, world-class universities, and a highly competitive research and development environment. On top of that, Canada has universal healthcare, affordable childcare, vibrant cities, and ever-increasing areas of protected nature. And importantly, strong democratic institutions. We are a reliable partner with an abundance of talent, a very attractive investment climate, and a great quality of life. And since 1993, trade between Canada and Mexico has increased more than ninefold. And recent data shows that in the first three quarters of last year, Canada was the second largest source of new foreign direct investment in Mexico ahead of Spain. There's huge potential for growth between our countries. So let us continue this momentum. Let us keep doing what leaders did a generation ago. Hold fast to our belief in open trade and collaboration. Having quoted both the Canadian Prime Minister and a Mexican president, I'll give you one more quote from Bill Clinton in 1993 when NAFTA legislation passed in the U.S. We are on the verge of a global economic expansion that has sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided we would compete, not retreat. Let's keep forging ahead and pursue more growth for our economies. Growth that includes everyone. Growth that creates good jobs and strengthens the middle class. Growth that means our air and water is clean. Growth that is shared amongst friends and makes Mexicans, Americans, and Canadians even stronger and more optimistic about the great future waiting for us. Thank you all for being here today. Gracias.