 The First Order of Business Today, Mr. President, is the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in Criminal Matters. The treaty is a very practical manifestation of our mutual desire to improve relations in this very sensitive area. I think that it will serve Canadian and U.S. law enforcement interests by providing effective means of cooperation in the suppression of international narcotics trafficking and organized crime. And most importantly, I suppose as well, it will help to avoid problems that arise when one country seeks to obtain evidence in important matters in criminal cases. We have a common objective that President and I and our colleagues in the fight against crime and now we have a common machinery to pursue that objective with your commission. Colleagues and friends, we will sign that treaty. Second Order of Business is the Pacific Salmon Treaty. This treaty was in fact signed on January 28th by the Honourable John Fraser, our Minister of Fisheries from British Columbia on behalf of Canada and Edward Derwinsky for the United States. Today's exchange of instruments of ratification brings to a successful conclusion 15 years of negotiation. The treaty's most direct beneficiary will be the Pacific Salmon industry on both sides thanks to this cooperative undertaking. Endangered salmon stocks, which are so important to our respective West Coasts, will now have a chance to rebuild to their former strengths. The third item on our agenda is the agreement to the modernization of the North American air defense system. This is a double ceremony. Our defense ministers will sign a memorandum of understanding, and our foreign ministers will sign a diplomatic note that covers the memorandum. This document implies two signatures of participation from the Secretary of the Foreign Affairs of the two countries and our national defense ministers. By this agreement, Canada and the United States are reinvigorating their partnership in the defense of North America. The agreement provides for a new and improved due line called the North Warning System to be jointly funded. Unlike the due line, however, the part of the North Warning System in Canada will be a Canadian control system. Now, I invite the ministers to sign the documents. You wondered what was going to happen there, right? Dear colleagues, at the time when your day is going to end, you will allow me, Mr. President, to tell you the joy and the pride that I have proved to you here in the name of all Canadians and all Canadians. Our countries were already friends. They are more than friends. The time has come, Mr. President and Nancy, to say au revoir. The people of Canada and in particular the people of Quebec are pleased and proud to have had you among us during these past two days. Your presence has added, among other things, some California sunshine to our traditional winter festivities, both in Quebec and Canada. These have been, I believe, productive days for our two countries. We have come to an understanding on some of the major issues facing us. We have provided a solid, agreed basis for further discussion and progress by our colleagues until we meet again. We have moved into a new, more constructive phase of our bilateral relationship. The various discussions and work sessions held on Sunday have, in other words, given to the ministers of my government, the opportunity to renew personal relations with several of your ministerial collaborators. We have all come to an understanding on the basis of a collaboration that will certainly bring fruits for our two countries. Our meetings have, as a result, identified more precisely our number of points of convergence. They have also allowed us to measure and measure the path we take to achieve the goals that we have set. You, Mr. President, have put your personal stamp on that relationship, the stamp of openness and decency and integrity and courage. These are the qualities of your presidency in which the people of Canada and the world place so much hope and trust. On behalf of all my colleagues and on behalf of the people of Quebec and of Canada, I wish you and Nancy and every member of your delegation, Godspeed, bon voyage, bonne chance, merci et au revoir. Very much. The Citadel of Quebec says so much about Canada and about the relations between our two countries. On this rock once flew the flag of France, and then the flag of Britain, and today the Maple Leaf flag symbolizes a united Canada. Over two centuries ago Canadians and Americans battled one another in this city. But the walls surrounding us today were erected later for a war which never came. Canada and the United States put aside suspicion to build not only a lasting and permanent friendship, but a great and productive relationship. Today the Citadel and other places like it in both our countries stand as monuments to a history of peace, goodwill and cooperation. Earlier today I suggested that Canada and the United States are forging a new partnership. This afternoon Prime Minister Mulroney and I have put that new partnership to work. The relationship between our two countries is complex and varied. The agreements we announced this afternoon reflect that variety. We share the world's longest undefended border and the world's longest water boundary. Yet more fundamentally, we share Earth's most bountiful continent. We're responsible for managing and preserving that common environment. We have a long history of cooperating in doing so. I'm personally committed to continuing this proud tradition. I know that our two governments share this commitment and I know that the issue of acid rain has received a great deal of attention in Canada. Let me simply say cooperation on this issue is possible and the appointment by the Prime Minister and by me of Special Envoy is another step forward. So difficult a problem deserves the best talent that our two governments can enlist. For almost three decades, the distant early warning line known as the dew line has been the northernmost edge of our early warning capability. It's been a vital part of the deterrence system which protects both our countries from attack serving as a watch tower for NORAD. The technology of the dew line is now almost obsolete but the need for an early warning line remains. Accordingly the Prime Minister and I issued an agreement to modernize the North American air defense system. The Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty which we signed will facilitate cooperation between Canadian and American law enforcement officials. Protecting the environment, defending our people and ensuring that justice is done, these are all special roles for government. Economic prosperity however requires that the enterprise work and investment of the private sector. As each other's largest trading partner, Canada and the United States have long enjoyed profitable economic and commercial ties. And today Prime Minister Mulroney and I are issuing an important declaration which we expect will facilitate expanded trade. We also exchanged the instruments of ratification for a U.S.-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty. This brings a 15-year-old undertaking to a successful and mutually beneficial conclusion as you've been told. The treaty will be a boon to our citizens along the Pacific Coast. It symbolizes how we're able with a combination of hard work and high level attention to turn an irritant in our relations into a form of cooperation. The poet Rupert Brooke wrote, and high and gray and serene above the morning lay the citadel of Quebec. Is there any city in the world that stands so nobly as Quebec? Nancy and I have deeply appreciated your hospitality. We'll always remember the beauty of your city. Nougat de Renteuseur, un excellent souvenir de Notre-Cégeur, Quebec, a devout. We will always remember Quebec. We will always remember you. Mila and Brian, we look forward to seeing both of you in the United States next year. I'm getting cheated, baby. Look what I'm getting and look what you're getting. There they are, tens of the seven. All right. Thank you. Mr. President, great pleasure to see you. What are those guns, Mr. Prime Minister? Ah, no. What was the famous battle here, right? The Fort fell, of course. This one surely fit it on. All right. Is it running, Jim? We hope so. Can you see? The end of you finding out. Speak here.