 Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. What a pleasure to be back here a hundred days later after on an equally beautiful day Little chillier though talking about the future of the waterfront in this great city. It's great to be back in Toronto I want to thank Waterfront Toronto for putting together this event and welcoming Sidewalk Labs to Toronto. I especially want to thank some very special guests Eric Schmidt and Dan Doctoroff here Making the trip up here. It's great to have you here Dan I've been a big fan for a long time of the things you've been doing in New York City and The visionary approach you bring to Sidewalk Labs and Eric and I have been talking about Collaborating on this for a few years now and seeing it all come together today is extraordinarily exciting. I also want of course to acknowledge my friends Premier Kathleen Nguyen and Mayor John Tory We're also here as well have been strong leaders on this issue And my good friend Adam Vaughn who's been an extraordinary resource for me and for our government on Thinking smart and thinking responsibly about cities and the future we build for all of our citizens Some of you will remember the last time Premier Nguyen, Mayor Tory and I were here at the Port Lands We announced that we'd work together to make the Port Lands flood protection project a reality Whereas Premier Nguyen put it that we would restore paradise by pulling up a parking lot Sorry, it was a great line and I This day our government is committed to Accord a new fund to help clean the port lands of Toronto and protect the sector of floods And other extreme meteorological events It's an important first step that we have to take if we want to exploit the economic potential Of this sector that has been underutilized for years These investments combined with those of the province and the city Constitues the base that will allow us to transform an industrial sector in a dynamic district Of the city filled with activities and in the middle of life The Port Lands flood protection project and the work that Waterfront Toronto has completed on already revitalized lands Is in line with our government's plan to build greener smarter towns and cities We want to make sure that Canadians and their families can enjoy everything their community has to offer for generations to come But to realize that vision a vision shared by the municipality in the province Waterfront Toronto needed a strong partner who believed in the potential of this city and its citizens a Partner who was determined to find innovative solutions to make our communities even better places to call home Places to raise our families and make memories I'm pleased to announce that Waterfront Toronto has found an extremely promising partner in sidewalk labs a World leader in urban innovation sidewalk labs will create a test bed for new technologies in Keyside Technologies that will help us build smarter greener more inclusive cities Which we hope to see scaled across Toronto's eastern Waterfront and eventually in other parts of Canada and around the world L'annonce d'aujourd'hui présente aussi des opportunités sans précédent pour les innovateurs canadiens qui auront la chance de collaborer avec sidewalk labs ou encore de profiter des technologies qui seront mises à l'essai à Keyside en effet l'équipe d'experts de sidewalk labs Travaillera avec les milieux universitaires le gouvernement et les citoyens en vue de faire l'essai de nouvelles idées et d'élaborer des Technologiques transformeront notre façon de travailler de vivre et de nous divertir qu'il s'agisse d'infrastructures plus écologiques ou de systèmes énergétiques plus efficaces les innovateurs et les penseurs exploreront des idées audacieuses pour trouver des solutions créatives aux défis de la vie urbaine The future that our kids and grandkids are going to inhabit is one where bold innovative thinking is the norm Where our complex challenges are solved by innovation and partnership This announcement today is about promoting and fostering that innovation and leading the way forward This partnership will affect effectively transform Keyside into a thriving hub for innovation and create the good Well-paying jobs that Canadians need Today, I'm also pleased that in order to get the development of this area started Google Canada has committed to relocate its headquarters to the eastern waterfront to anchor this innovation cluster This decision on the part of Google shows commitment to the success of this project My friends this project will become a model for others not only in Canada, but around the world After all the future just like this community will be interconnected with this partnership Sidewalk has demonstrated its trust and confidence in Canada And we're pleased to begin this exciting new chapter and continue to grow together Sidewalk not only shares Canada's ambition of building an economy centered on innovation, but its values values like quality of opportunity Diversity and the protection of the environment We know the world is changing and the choice we have is to either Resist it and be frightened by it or to say we can step up together And shape it and learn from it and build it we can draw on innovative thinkers like Jeff Hinton Where's Jeff Jeff's here somewhere wanted that there you are Who's done incredible work on AI and deep learning and it's just one of the many Extraordinarily innovative thinkers we have across Canada, but mostly our greatest advantage are amazing citizens who are Optimistic hopeful positive Open to new ideas open to each other and aware that if we seize the opportunities of the future The the art potential is unlimited that this is a time of worries a time of anxiety Sure, but it's also a time of extraordinary opportunity for places like Toronto like Ontario like Canada We're willing to step up and grab it and I'm very excited to be announcing this great partnership with sidewalk labs with alphabet and Google in Recognizing that Canada is doing the right things in the right direction And we're doing it because we have such confidence in our citizens and in our potential Once again, I want to thank my colleagues premier win Mayor Tory and everyone at waterfront Toronto for the sustained leadership on this project And of course, thank you to sidewalk labs and alphabet for dreaming alongside us. Merci beaucoup. Thank you very much