Theyre only going to give me so much time here. [laughter] [applause] oh, come on. Get your for a few more minutes. I want to thank the Vice President. We give him one more great round of applause, thank you for addressing the governors. And understand the challenges that the governors have in dealing with all the issues and i appreciate the discussion of the opiate crisis which every governor sitting around this table understands and deals with on a daily basis. Its now my pleasure to introduce someone very special. Im honored, this is the first time in nga history weve had a head of state addressed the National Governors association and its only fitting that we have the canadian Prime Minister to address us today because in america, think of that relationship we have with canada. Not only the gigantic border that we share as governor. But also the friendship. I do not believe there is a better bilateral relationship than two countries in the entire globe. Has between canada and the United States of america. And i specifically want to thank the Prime Minister who has stepped out and led on such important issues of dealing with climate change. How to deal with extremism, working with us here in america. I want to thank the Prime Minister, making sure that canada is open, welcoming to everyone. Hes been a fighter to protect womens rights, to protect the rights of the lgbt community. He understands we are open and welcoming, good things happen. Your economies grow. Most importantly i want to thank Prime Minister for his leadership on the economy. Our top trading partner, such a vital partner to all of us around the stable who have to grow and create jobs. I personally as the governor of virginia want to thank Prime Minister for the 600,000 canadians came to visit virginia last year and spent 214 Million Dollars. They bought our beer, they bought our wine, our peanuts. They went to our beautiful mountains, they went to virginia beach. I always like to say you come to virginia beach, we dont have sharks in virginia beach. We have dolphins. Income, pick up your children and give them rides and drop them back off. But every governor has a similar story how important canada is with my distinguished honor as chairman of the Governors Association on behalf of all the governors introduced the state for the First Time Ever a head of state , canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. [applause] you. Thank you very much. Merci beaucoup thank you. Vice president pants, governors, friends. Yes, good afternoon. This is my sincere privilege to be here with you today to talk about some of the values we have in common for the solutions, the challenges that we all face. Governor mcauliffe, you for your kind words of introduction and your thoughtful opening remarks. Senator raimondo, thank you for your warm welcome in this extraordinary ocean state hospitality. Its high summer in rhode island, land of the sun, sand and surf. I have to say im a little bit flattered and surprised that so many of you in the audience had chosen to be here now rather than the beach. Maybe thats on the agenda for this weekend. Maybe, like me, you agree with Wallace Stevens that perhaps it depends on a walk around the lake. I have to tell you, wallace evens, the famous american poet. By day he worked insurance of the road in hartford connecticut. By night he wrote some of the most poetry this country and indeed our world has ever seen. I to get to know this beautiful historic corner of america a little better than the field and low stone walls, the orchards and spectacular ocean vistas. And ive been thinking a lot about Wallace Stevens and in the poems, he declares i am what is around me. It makes me think of the concept of home. And how we define it. Of course, home becomes family. It extends out from there. Two pools and places of worship, workplaces, communities, cities, states , countries. There is an aspect of home that goes beyond our national borders, at least beyond the canada us border unlike any other. That is the idea and the reality for, north america. This is where newfoundlanders took in thousands of stranded american air travelers after 9 11, chronicled in the awardwinning broadway musical, from away which you should all see. It is. [applause] it is where 100 years ago, new englanders rushed to help their nova scotia cousins after the halifax explosions of 1917. We saw it just a few weeks ago in the plymouth to newport sailing race got hit with Hurricane Force winds, Canadian Armed forces personnel ships and planes went immediately into rescue mode. Thats what friends and neighbors do for one another. They are there for each other. The canada us border sometimes referred to as the longest undefended border in the world, thats actually wrong. Our shared border is very well defended. We defended together against common threats. From norad, the only joint relationship in the world, to nato, to counterterrorism, to basic streetlevel policing, canadians and americans work shoulder to shoulder keeping each other safe. The longest any of us herecan remember , we have done this. That is the context into which id like to say a few words today about canadas outreach to the United States this year. Which has variously been described by analysts and pundits as ancanadian , exceptionally canadian, unprecedented, highly predictable and perhaps the mostcolorfully , dont. And that one i have suspect you governors are all displaying right now. My friends, im here to tell you that our continuing conversation with all of you is none of those things. Not at all. Contrary, it is consistent and solid through improved. And i need to highlight the work of two individuals here as being exemplary throughout this process. Canadas minister of foreign affairs, Krista Friedland and our ambassador to the United States. Thank you both. We all know that kristin and david are not alone in this. It extends to all levels of government in society from my continuing constructive dialogue with Vice President pants, between federal ministers and cabinet secretaries to meetings between stategovernors and provincial premiers including the premier of ontario kaplan when whos here today. Conversations between municipal leaders , business and nongovernmental organizations to the thousands of personal and business ties that form the bedrock of our national bond. During my time in politics, ive noticed this. Pundits, and i say this with the greatest of respect and affection to our friends in the media, really seem to enjoy the word strategy. If you have a plan, whats the plan, anyone can have a plan. If you call it strategy, suddenly journalists are leafing through sun tzus the art of war and making oblique references to chess. It has the effect of making the obvious seem complex or at least fancy. It makes for an interesting story but our strategy or plan is actually extremely straightforward. Canada is a confident, creative, resourceful and resource rich nation. We are wealthy and influential country by world standards. We are also a country of 35 Million People living next door to roughly 110 times our size and the worlds only superpower. My father, Prime Minister once compared this to sleeping next to an elephant. While you, my american friends may be an elephant, canada is no mouse. More like a moose. Strong and peaceable, but still massively outweighed. So we need to work harder to make our points. Advocate for the interests of canadian families in a way that will connect down here. That applies across the range of our national interest, the fight against climatechange, job creation , for a common defense. Because lets face it, theres another truth about good neighbors. Sometimes they take each other for granted. Sometimes the very dependability and ease of a relationship can lead to us paying too little attention. When that happens, the principals invariably live to regret it. Friends, we in canada decided we would not allow that to happen to our relationship with the United States of america. If you allow me to say that again for the folks back home because its important. [speaking french] when i talk about the importance of maintaining this relationship, i talk about it as a collective area i say we because this sentiment extends throughout cabinet and caucus i need but is actually bigger than our government or our political party. There is a extraordinarily high degree of support for this across canadian society. And note by the way that we have representatives from two of our Major Political parties here today. The result of Parliament Mike lake, friend of shanahan and selma and to all the senators brent and eggleston, thank you all for being here. [applause] as i was saying, this canada us relationship is far too important for us to assume that americans are as focused on it as we are. Focused on just how interlinked our economies have become. And just how crucial this is to the prosperity and security of both sides of this border, especially for the working middle class and those working hard to join it. Given the imminent modernization of north american freetrade agreements which you welcome of course, we felt compelled to tell you this story specifically as it relates to the United States. Its a great story. And not just for the 9 million American Workers and jobs that depend directly on trade and investment with canada. But for all americans. Now, some of you have may have heard that last number before along with the fact that two thirds of american states of canada have the number one export. This may have something to do with the fact that we are repeating those numbers to us audiences every chance we get. The export number is true, by the way for a majority of the states represented here today including alabama, arkansas, colorado, iowa, kentucky, massachusetts, minnesota, montana, new hampshire, north carolina, north dakota, rhode island, south dakota, vermont, virginia and wisconsin. [applause] to boil this down to one point, canada is the us biggest, best customer by far. We are a Bigger Customer than china by roughly 152 billion. Bigger than japan or the uk, no one else even comes close. In fact, canada buys more from the us than china, japan and the uk combined. Weve been consistent this year, some might say relentless. But we are polite in our relentlessness because we are canadian. In sharing the message to getting at my regular dialogues of president from and fanning out from there. Let me tell you why. This is the most Successful Economic Partnership in the history of the world. Its worth about 1 trillion each year , most importantly, well balanced. More broadly, the north american freetrade zone is the biggest Economic Zone in the world, comprising a 19 trillion regional market, 470 million customers. United states, canada and mexico together now account for more than a quarter of the world gdp. Says the trilateral agreement went into effect in 1994, us trade with partners has tripled. With that accounts for millions of wellpaying middleclass jobs, canadians and americans. Freetrade has worked. It is working now. Those ties have grown well beyond direct trade. Canadians pay more than 500 million annually in property tax in florida alone. And another 25,000 homes in arizona are canadian owned. Something to do with the weather, i suspect. But napa isnt perfect, no such agreement ever is. We think it should be updated and modernized as it has been a dozen times over the past quarter century. And i have every expectation that it will be. The ultimate benefit to working people in all three partner countries. I have to add this, weve been gratified by the serious respectful response that our outreach has met on all levels. American government. We thank our counterparts in the trumpet ministration for that and we thank all of you area the relationship between our countries is historic. It is a model to the world. Is of critical importance for people on both sides of the border that we maintain and indeed improve it. We must get this right. And sometimes, getting it right means refusing to take the politically tempting shortcuts. More trade barriers, more local content provisions. More preferential access for homegrown players and government. Ferment for example. That does not help working families over the long term, or even the midterm. These policies kill growth. And i that hurts the very workers these measures are nominally intended to protect. And once we travel down that road, it can quickly become a cycle of. [bleep] for tat, tell race to the bottom where all sides lose. Front, canada doesnt want to go there. If anything, wed like a thinner border for trade, not a thicker one. Allow me once again to repeat that. [speaking french]. [speaking french] now, there are really great arguments to be made to keeping our border say when it comes to trade, even as we improve crossborder Law Enforcement that makes canadians and americans safe. And our friends and partners in michigan and ohio know well the case of magnus international, the Global Automotive parts supplier headquarter in ontario. Founded in 1957, magnet today employees nearly 140,000 workers in 29 countries. Half of those workers are here in north america. Magna has 65 facilities in the United States. 60 in canada and 29 in mexico. And heres the point. Magna supply chain spans the border. To a car parts, a border is invisible. In the canadian components are incorporated into more complex products before final assembly. I drove for uppercrust members starts in proximal ontario, supported into michigan forcibly into a carrier and incorporated into a full front module in ohio. Anna then sends the front end module to chrysler for final assembly. Chrysler finishes jeeps around the world. Thats teamwork, my friends. Or take can group, the Parent Company of canada and steel, can and is headquartered in qucbec and employees roughly equal numbers of canadians and americans, this land is a point of rock maryland and claremont new hampshire, to find jobs that are vital to their communities and can market is the Construction Industry which is a north American Wine industry. There are literally too many examples of this name. Whether its cn in louisiana or hydro in maine were Cost Corporation in misery or countless other enterprises and projects across the state, canadian energy, ingenuity and capital are there helping you build america just as americans build energy, ingenuity and capital in canada, helping us build our country. And this ultimately is why i have such confidence in our shared future. And in the vast efforts of every leader in this room and in washington to nurture this relationship to make it even better, we really are all in this together. An ambassador mcnaughton remarked on the high degree of cooperation and collegiality among the state governments he talked to including many of you. That pragmatic approach crossed party lines. And iknow thats because as governors , we face common problems and share many of the same goals. I know that you your focus on creating the conditions for good, wellpaying jobs for the middle class in your state whether republican or democrat in this economy, thats most likely your very First Priority. Its my First Priority as well. President trump has told us all that is his First Priority. We all have this in common. This challenge, how to ensure benefits of commerce and trade are more broadly shared every family can look forward to a Brighter Future is among the most fundamental of our time. Friends, i believe to my core that the most important challenge we face as elected leaders is that of creating lasting, conditions for prosperity and security for all our people in this, our shared north americanhome. By virtue of our geography, by virtue of our interlinked economies, this is work we are called to together within a modernized, renewed and strengthened north american freetrade agreement. So i will leave you with this. Let us meet the challenge. Let us keep talking as neighbors and friends should. Let us roll up our sleeves, lets get to work and lets keep making history together. [applause] mr. Prime minister, that was a spectacular speech. Please give him another big hand [applause]. So, i had the privilege of asking the first question and as the governor said we as a governors have waited 108 years for a foreign head of state to address as and it adds a lot of governors through the years, so a simple question, why us and why now . I think one of the things we see, i mean, there is no immediate context, but also a broader context. Immediate is theres a lot of talk about nafta, benefits or challenges around nafta and for us to adjust a sort of sitting back and hoping it all works out isnt really that canadian way. We have winters that are too harsh to do that in general, so we reach out and we think and we plan and we thought this would be a great opportunity to really step up our engagement across all Different Levels of the Us Administration as many of you know we were extremely proactive in connecting President Trump and his administration as they got up and running, but also we realized connecting better with congress, reaching out to states across the country working with governors is something that happens every day at all levels of this relationship and we should be more thoughtful and deliberate about and thats the specific context. I think the general context is that we are in a world thats more more interdependent, more and more interconnected and in which people are more and more aware of the challenges that our communities or societies are facing and more and more eager to see people working hard, rolling up their sleeves to address their worries about their jobs, future, kids future and this level of interconnection and pooling of energies to meet these challenges, i think, is part of what citizens hope to see from their leaders in general. Thank you. Thank you mr. Prime minister for being with us here today. We appreciate everything you said earlier and what we are trying to do with this conference that has is at a big Ad International flair to it. We have folks from mexico, china, japan with the emphasis being that we want to businesses and governments to deal directly with grosvenors governors to grow our economy. Sometimes it relates to trade, conflicts in messages coming out from washington day. I just got back from a seven nation to work with issues about a border tax and so forth, so ive tried to come to the states we will do business with you and i ask you today, what advice would you give us a governors . You are number one trading partner as you are with many states here, but as you envision the next few years what would you tell us governors to increase how we do more business with canada . First of all, to reflect on what a lot of people take for granted, on how easily the relationship is a canada. I remember and that goes on both sides of the border as well. I remember on American Ambassador who explained to canada who explained to me one of the first things he did was across the country to try to drum up more business with the us and a number of people who said to him as he was trying to say you should think more internationally people said no, we dont do international sales. We just sell to the states. The things we take for granted in terms of the easy proximity is something we have to be deliberate of an thoughtful about and look for those opportunities. Look for the complementarity in our economy and mostly think about reaching out. Encourage your business community, timbers of congress to look at export possibilities, welcome in busy delegations from canada and to make canada by first easy step towards the Global Economy for many of your Small Businesses. I mean, its hard when we think of the Global Economy we think of revolution. Its just as easy to sell your Small Business product across the street as it is to sell it around the world. You just have to shift your thinking and if you can open your engagement at that level of already thinking of engaging with canada and the opportunity there becomes easier to really start to play in the Global Economy. On the flip side of things of the voice of the governors within the american system both towards the federal government, but also connected with folks on the ground in your communities whether its Business Leaders or ordinary families and workers. You are better connected than folks in washington to the realities of people in their daytoday lives and being that bridge that is showing that benefits of trade, of a global perspective and ensuring his the policy mechanisms that you have that benefits growth is being distributed and shared fairly amongst your citizens is something the governors have been and continue to do. Thank you. We have time for some governor questions. Many governors would like to ask the Prime Minister. Anyone . Governor armando. Thank you peer Prime Minister, that was extraordinary speech and welcome to rhode island. We spent an awful lot of time of the past day or so talking about the Opioid Overdose Crisis here in america and i think every single governor promised table is struggling. In my own state we have lost over a thousand people to the disease in the past temple of years. I know this is something you have taken great action on. Could you offer as your advice, whats working and any words of wisdom that you have on this issue. Thank you. The Opioid Crisis is hitting us extremely hard as well to varying degrees across the country and i was actually pleased it was specifically one of the things that President Trump and i were able to agree upon and coordinate and collaborate action on when i made my first visit to washington a number of months ago, so its something im glad we are collaborating on because whether its issues around controlling borders and trying to stem the flow of sentinel and other opioids, whether its looking at frontline policing our frontline First Responders and making or looking at Harm Reduction which we havent had success with in canada which is looking at more safe consumption sites where people can be in a saver spot where they will be able to be treated if they get an overdose from bad products or overly concentrated opioids. We have solutions that we are happy to talk about and work with you on an obviously the challenges will vary from region to region, from urban location to rural, but we are beginning to see that once what was concentrated in certain areas is now hitting broad communities, young people, urban retirees and all sorts of folks across the country and making sure we are thoughtful and coordinated in our approach to this crisis is something that has good neighbors, friends and allies we should certainly be doing and i welcome the money being put forward. We have put money towards it as well, but mostly the goodwill of people who realize this is a very Serious Health crisis that we need to address responsibly and quickly. We have time for one more. Any other governor have a question. Thank you. A lot of tough negotiations on that Transpacific Partnership involving the us particularly around agriculture products. Do you expect these negotiations will pick up where they left off . Canada is a country that has understood from the very beginning how important trait is. We always had more resources than our small population can use or handle and weve always needed to be able to export our goods around the world. We had been extraordinarily fortunate to share the border with the United States, which means we have natural and always have natural connections with the american market, but we have also looked increasingly as engaging in the world. We just signed a historic free trade deal with european union, which certainly we are hoping will come into provisional application within a couple of months, which will have 99 of all Tariff Barriers disappear between our two countries, which would be good for our workers and our Small Businesses and a Large Businesses and good for our economies, but we are also very interested in trade with asia. I think there is a lot of interest in the tpp in furthering the momentum that we had, understanding the uss position right now and also knowing trade matters and create opportunities for new markets. Creating opportunities for our Small Businesses and agriculture producers to sell into the growing middle class in asia. I mean, we are talking 300 Million People in china alone joining the global middle class or very interested in lobsters from nova scotia or maine or cherries from Washington State or british columbia. There are opportunities for us to engage with asia and china or the ttp countries that im very very interested in, so we are open to engaging and discussing trade. I think the challenge that we face around a trade is that yes, alice succession succession of policymakers and governments have promised, traders led to growth over the past decades. That is true. The problem, however, is trade has never been a guarantee the growth would be fairly distributed amongst citizens and the challenge we have now as governments responding to citizens who have said maybe it hasnt worked out for us the way you promised it and the wealthiest and big countries seem to do well with trade, but the rest of us arent really seen benefits. It becomes really really important that as we look at new or trade, signing trade deals, improving deals like nafta we think right up front about how to make sure were the benefits of the growth that will come from trade inevitably accrue to more of our population. You combine that concern with trade with the reality of automation and ai and we realize workplace is changing. We need to be investing in education and skills training, and creating confidence amongst our citizens that we are building for their future and not just a shortterm bottom line ended as the challenge of leadership that we all face right now. It is both demonstrating the concrete benefits of policies, plans including trade, but also selling it, reassuring people, showing we can build and solve these challenges together as we have in the past as opposed to giving into fear, anxiety or anger and thats always the challenge of leadership. People might be worried, anxious , concern about the future. How do we take that energy and push it forward into policies that are actually going to help our citizens, help out companies and help our economy and thats where whether its the ttp, whether its traded deals around the world or whether its just this extraordinary relationship between canada and the us, this is where our energies and efforts must lie and demonstrating and focusing on the benefits for all of our citizens. [applause]. Ladies and gentlemen, please again angel join me in thanking the Prime Minister for being with us today. [applause]. [applause]. I would like to turn it over. It was in that meant only to have both Vice President pence and Vice President trudeau with us today. Want to take a moment to thank them for sharing their thoughts and time with us. We appreciate their presence and with the Vice President on health care we still have a lot to discuss. I want to also thank all of our guests from canada and mexico. This is probably the largest turn turnout from those two countries and i went to take a couple of minutes to focus on those relationships and as the Prime Minister said to allah quickly, creates wealth and in trade as in automation or other innovation there can sometimes be significant job displacement. We has governors whether democrat or republican can do a better job and have to do a better job at training and education educating people of all ages for all the new jobs created by this rapidly evolving Global Economy. Without any partisan bias i think we share in this response ability and also as Prime Minister to do said we need to make sure come i think his words were that the benefits were more broadly shared among our citizens. We believe that states and providences and Work Together to achieve greater success for all the people we serve. This is precisely why governor herbert and i worked hard to develop the inaugural north America Summit of governors that took place in Colorado Springs in 2015. Our vision was to establish a foundation, to establish a forum that helped to spur conversations that supported cultural and economic linkages between our states, providences and countries with bipartisan attendance, the 2015 summit we were able to have discussion on innovation, infrastructure investment, trade and to build relationships that in many cases are ongoing. This would all come back to jobs. We value the relationships we have with the canadians and Mexican Companies that operate in colorado and i know all the other governors feel the same way. We also know so many of our own companies and industries benefit from access to those neighboring markets. In colorado be on the fact that canada and mexico are our largest trading partners, colorado businesses export more than 2. 4 billion in goods in 2016. In several parts of colorado we host every two years the biannual of the americas or in spanish to engage our neighbors in a weeklong festival of culture and Business Innovation that seeks to celebrate shared history and connectedness through the entire western hemisphere. If any of you are bored that we can september, a convenient time to come to colorado. We know that through collaboration, trade and sharing of ideas that we can achieve more and we can expand opportunity, not to just work coloradans and americans, but for our states and providences beyond our borders. I want to again thank the end ga and governor macola for hosting this session and to governor ducey for your partnership as cochair of the economic developer committee. I especially look forward to the end ga in the second north american summit of governors, which i hope and understand will be announced quite soon, so i will kick it over to our fearless leader, scott patterson. Thank you very much. Im delighted to be moderating the secession and we will start by having some special guests remarks and it really has been on extra ordinary day for the first head of state speaking to us as well as the Vice President of the United States and we also again have very special guests from canada to mexico. Im going to start an first ask the chief executive of mexico city to say a few remarks. Thank you for being with us. Good afternoon, governor of virginia, governor of rhode island, gina, distinguished governors. Today we are here for a historical signature summits with Great Respect and admiration for this country and my capacity as chair of the state governors of mexico. I have conviction that the states and providences and local governments are closer to an more in tune with the real needs of the people. We understand the priorities of the people for the purpose of nafta. Of the governors, canada, and the us and mexico in detail the needs of the local economy. We understand the factors that need to be promoted for our people. The north america Free Trade Agreement is a historical opportunity to come together again, renew our relations, come to a new consensus and move beyond our differences. I come to propose that the states shall have [inaudible] agreed that our state governors organization. Mexicos a key player and gateway to commerce with the us and canada. We are the second largest market for the us and canadas large commercial partners. Because of nafta mexico in the United States, its almost 500 billiondollar each year representing 1 Million Dollars a minute. Contrary to what some suggest the United States has been a great beneficiary of the Free Trade Agreement with mexico. After more than 20 years of open trade, 5 million jobs in the us today depend on trade with mexico. In regard to canada, in 2016, commerce between our two nations which record carried forward 7 million. This is commercial integration and is a good way to further Economic Growth. As chair of the governor of mexico i would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the premieres of canada, obviously the Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau have proven to be to the continuation of nafta. A pro change to nafta could imply trade that can also affect our fellow citizens. Million of mexican who live in the us, they came to this country with a dream to building a better future. Today 10 of the economy depends on this workforce. Mexico in the United States share a rich history as neighbors. If in the middle part of this community in the United States. The fear of being deported remains the same of our fellow mexican migrants to this country looking for better opportunities i would like to take this opportunity to address our mexican workers. You are not alone. The governors of mexico will defend your dignity and rights. There are countries that want to close their doors, but mexico will always be an open door with trade and open borders. We will never accept discrimination. At the National Conference of governors of mexico stand firm with the conviction that we will achieve our agenda in north american trade agreement. The governors of my country are here to demonstrate to make a stronger. As a region we are ready to take charge of our future. Before you as a political representative of the us and canada we must put our faith in a united integrated north america in this global moments its critical to come to intelligent acknowledge development in which we can take advantage of the strengths of our three countries and integrate our economy strong commercial block. Mexico, us and canada should advocate for a region in which each country in the global america. We are stronger if we remain together. New and improved local practices for the three countries. When mexico experiences significant Economic Growth with nafta is important to recognize all this growth has been for everyone. We have seen our legislation fail to address our workers. Mexico requires a significant minimum wage recovery. The governors of mexico and i are convinced that this is the only way to improve the labor markets. Investment in mexico and boost qualification of mexican labor and focus on the wages. Lastly, i would like to recognize the state that we are in, rhode island. The place, concepts of democratic government and freedom. [inaudible] just as they would have [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] thank you very much for your attention. [applause]. Thank you, mayor. Soaks may be interested to know as chief executive he is unique in mexico in that hes considered a governor also and is chair of the Governors Association in the country of the mexico. [applause]. Now, we are pleased to introduce remarks, the 25th premier of the largest providence of canada premier kathleen wynne. Thank you very much, scott. [applause]. Thank you. Its a great pleasure to be here and i know what you want from me as a really long speech. [laughter] im going to disappoint you. I just want to make a few points , but i wanted to begin by thanking governor mccullough, and the others and scott for this event. Of the sessions have been terrific. It was very helpful in my role as premier of ontario to hear peoples shared experience on the Opioid Crisis we are dealing with many of the same situations. Had a great opportunity to listen to folks talk about cyber security, so again it is very very helpful to be able to hear best practices and so i thank you for the warm welcome. We just heard from Prime Minister trudeau, so the first thing i want to is to say that im here on behalf of ontario, so we as scott as said the largest providence in the country with over 13 and a half Million People. I will be debriefing with my colleague from years next week. We are having our meeting that is parallel to this one and so i will be talking to them about the conversations that i have had here. Ive had an opportunity to meet with many of you and i appreciate that. All love the heads of canadas providences and territory without exception i can tell you recognize the importance as the Prime Minister has articulated today that importance of our relationships with the state and with the United States as a whole, so theres not one of us that would not articulate that, so trade will be a top agenda item when we meet next week and i will certainly be talking to my colleagues about the conversations that i have had here. We are as i said the largest providence in the country and thats by gdp and population in the us it is our biggest trading partner. Unexampled a build on something that the premise or talked about in terms of the auto sector as example and i know many of you have heard the stat that the vehicle cross our borders seven times before they are completed and if so the relationship with the us, mexico or ontario is absolutely critical and we see ourselves not just in the auto sector, but in so many of our sectors and to exemplify that, i signed a memorandum of understanding with Governor Snyder of michigan sunset sometime ago, so its about expanding trade opportunities, but more than that its about sharing the capacity to innovate, sharing information, having partnerships that allow us to grow that type. A number of meetings i have had today with used that expression that this is not a zero sum game and i think thats fundamental to the conversation. Is that we see this relationship in north america as a zero sum game then it will be competitive and that race to the bottom that the Prime Minister was talking about. It will degenerate into trade war thats not what we want. So, the fundamental assumption that together we can grow that pie in that theres the possibility for growth for this north american region i think is critical and so thats why i have been so intent and i have been part of that strategy of relentlessness that the Prime Minister talked about. I have met with so many of you and i apologize for chasing you down, sort of, but im going to keep doing it because it is so important to us and i pick its important to all of us. The second thing i want to say is i have been very very focused on the importance of the subnational relationship, said to go back to where the questions that the governor asked of the Prime Minister i will build on the answer that the Prime Minister gave and state i think one of the things we can do is have those strong subnational relationships, so state to providence, municipalities working together and i think because we all understand as premieres in governors and when i explained to young people in the states what a premier as i say a governor, but with no mansion. I think we can understand directly from our stakeholders what the implications of decisions are and how we will implement the decisions that are made and so i think its extremely importance that we recognize those subnational relationships and so i noticed in our conversations that we are grappling with the same things. I talked about the Opioid Crisis, but ive had conversations where the tree has gone into an education discussion because we are talking about training our workforce in the governor and i were talking earlier about the relationship between the labor markets and our educational institutions and tightening those connections. Governor reynolds, i dropped by the girls decoding coding session and women in stem, that is a something we are all dealing with and had we make sure there are more women in those seats and taking part in that part of the economy and so we are investing heavily in our terrio in our people and in their skills and in their training opportunity. We are providing free tuition as of this september for college and university, for young people in the lowest socioeconomic brackets and also for people who are reach raining, people going back and arent able to pay for their tuition, so we believe our people are absolutely our most important asset and i know that is a shared value, so those are the kinds of things that i know we are grappling with and it only makes sense we would find ways to share best practices. The third point i want to make is that it just strikes me that on the issue of ensuring distribution of the benefit of the growth we have seen, the in ontario we have had a great first quarter. Our gdp grew by 1 , but we are leading growth in the country, outstripping growth in terms of the g7 and so we are doing well in ontario, but not everyone is benefiting from that and so we are making decisions about that spreading of the benefits across the population that has to do with fair economy, inclusive economy and so we are investing in the structure creating jobs and doing that in the form of p threes and i talked to a number of you about how we are working with the private sector to do that, but there is strong job creation happening because of that investment. We are in the fourth year of 190 billiondollar investment in infrastructure over 13 years, so thats a significant creation of jobs. We are raising the minimum wage in ontario. We are raising it january 2019 to 15 and we have recognized that although we have seen our minimum wage increase over the last 10 years we are still faced with a situation where people are not able to look after themselves and their families and piecing together to entry jobs to do that and so we dont take the growth for granted. We dont take the benefits of that growth for granted and we believe on inclusive economy is one that will continue to benefit all of us. So i will close by saying i have been speaking with leaders across the us and i will continue to do that. I believe in my hearts and in my mind that these relationships are critical. I believe as we go into the nafta discussions its going to be absolutely essential for us as subnational leaders to be able to see the information about whats going on on the ground in our jurisdictions to our federal negotiators in a way that will allow them to rear up represent our interest at the table. They are will continue to be challenging discussions. I understand that, but i am also very encouraged the cousin the conversations ive had with so many of you and your colleagues that we all understand the importance of this relationship and im convinced that we are in each corner of this great continent and we will continue to work to make sure these partnerships that benefit the people who will represent, so i went to thank you so much, all of you for the time that you have given us and i look forward to continuing our Work Together. Thank you. [applause]. Yes, the council of the federation, the equivalent of the us National Governors association is meeting in a couple days. I go home, repack and leave it for edmontons. We are pleased to have another governor from mexico, the state of carretera zero and i would like to say hello and welcome to you. 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Thank you very much for inviting me. I would like to greet Vice President pence, Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau in particular greetings to our host, governor of rhode island and to terry, our governor of virginia and chairman of the National Governors association of the us and attending premieres. As a member and particularly as governor of the state i recognize a highmindedness of this National Governors association and especially recognize the willingness of each and everyone of you to engage in this frank, open and necessary dialogue. We must view ourselves as a region and community of interest , a regional approach, integrating vision bond orders and differences, a vision which aids us in making the most common of our making the most common of our strengths in building an expanse of development, wellbeing and freedom, a community of interest means we must identify as partners and friends and as members of a society that shares ideas and aspirations. We can sum up Lessons Learned by nafta in one simple word, openness. We believe in openness and freedom openness in the broadest sense of the word, openness to trade for sure. We aim to maintain an deep in it. Openness to bind dancing. Openness to production openness to migration, especially openness to to receiving, considering the ideas of others. We must beat an open region, one which encourages openmindedness societies and governments, collaboration, knowledge, competitiveness, integration and innovation. Investments made in my state are linked to a supply chain that stretch throughout the us and canada as has been mentioned earlier. It is essential for all of us to grasp the scope of integration and how it is brought a quarter century of free trade. Investment takes place in a geographic location, but the benefits spill out throughout the entire region. The benefits know no borders or language barrier. We must move up from commercial Exchange Integration of production, value. Lets build change which dont isolate us, but instead unify us , value added change, chain of innovation, knowledge generation , production, distribution exports and its time to review what we can do better. Each party to the treaty may have its own position and that positions no doubt will be addressed, but the most important thing is to approach this time with a spirit of building. Nafta has left its mark for the better on a generation. Nafta version 2. 0 must define us as key players in the 21st century. From the time of the signing of the treaty are countries have undergone profound change as have our societies and as has the world. Today we have a totally different way of generating wealth by interconnecting, interacting, communicating. Law by nature must change and adapt to reality. Only that which does not change parishes. Mexico is a country that is undergone profound and positive changes, which shape our role in the world today. We are democracy. Now it is an everyday occurrence in mexico that Political Parties alternate in power, private investment has grown exponentially now. There is greater economic in mexico. There are entire sectors which are open today and these are precisely the ones that have grown the most in the past years. Governors of view this put as a unique opportunity. In order to emphasize common interests, our strength, our potential and opportunity to work out differences without focusing so much on them. We trust insensibility and will always yield greater and better fruits than will shrillness. Intelligence will always yield greater and better fruits than prejudice. Lets aim high for the sake of a renewed region of production, hardware, freedom and not just freedom of trade. Let us be an open region to investments, tourism, trade, knowledge, culture and labor. Let us be a community of interest, the interest of law, respect and human rights. Let us be a democratic and free region, the most powerful and prosperous region of the world. Let us be their region setting on example of innovation, being at the forefront and integration and to conclude, let us be the most humane region so that the next generation leads a better life and the world follows our lead. [applause]. Thank you, governor and now one of our leadership members, governor ducey of arizona is going to address a question which i will post to him, which is a way to conclude this session and thats this time of change with International Trade presenting uncertain for states and there is sony issues, states depend on trade for job and economic vitality. Arizona is an exception. In your opinion what is the single most important component for ensuring continued International Success as we move the forward. Thank you, scott and premier, mr. Mayor, governor, thank you for your comments. I dont think there is any silver bullets as to what is the single most important ingredients for trade. I come from the private sector in the first thing i did as governor was to look at our trade relationships, to look at our customers so to speak and i was able to see that mexico was our number one trading partner and it wasnt even close. It was four times any other trading partner so i knew that was a relationship i wanted to build and rebuild and i also looked at to canada, which was one of our top three trading partners and premier wen, you were gracious when we were able to come and visit and its a trip we treasure very much, relationships that we built. I started my career at Procter Gamble and we used to have a saying that people do business with people. They do more business with people they like and i think in the game of governments they do more business with the people that they like and that they trust. So, was the first governor in the last decade to visit mexico city. It was incredible. The reception, the welcome, the invitations that we received from their federal government. The country of mexico does more trade with arizona than it does with the entire pacific rim combined. Yet, this was a relationship that was not being nurtured thomas with the something we have paid great attention to and i would say to all of my other brother and sister governors that are here, 33 of your of you enjoy top trading relationship with mexico and i would encourage you to visit mexico city. We had the honor of having carlos slim, the leading businessman from mexico visited the state of arizona in my first few months of governor and i greeted him has he came to the state and i will never forget that the first thing he said to me was, im pessimistic. I said why are you pessimistic and his answer was, well, because of the past relationship that we have had and i said well, i encourage you please do be pessimistic. Be optimistic. On the new governor and i would like a fresh start. He reciprocated with a visit to mexico city. We brought a delegation of business people, academics and governmental leaders and we brought government leaders that matched up peertopeer, to resent to, Law Enforcement to Law Enforcement, Commerce Authority in Economic Development to Economic Development. Of this is resulted in several visits, resulted in my wife angela and i attending the inauguration of claudia pavlovich, the first female governor in the nation of mexico to be inaugurated in our sister state, the 1000 arizona, sonora. This has brought back to life something called the arizona mexico commission, something that was put together 57 years ago by my predecessor, governor paul fannin who set of mexico that god made us the neighbors so let us be good neighbors. I have expanded on that little because i think we are actually more than neighbors. Neighbors can actually move. We three geography have to find a way to Work Together and governor pavlovich has been terrific. We every six months traded places as to where we hold the arizona mexico commission, both in her home country and our home state and we had done it consistent over the last 30 months as governor resulting in our last meeting being over 600 people in a scottsdale, arizona, standing room only three days session of business people, academics and government leaders trading ideas and best practices and billing that relationship to the betterment of both of our peoples resulting in more jobs and prosperity for the state of arizona with specific wins, but i will hold off on some of those anecdotes until later. Thank you, scott. [applause]. Thank you, governor. I really wish we had more time. There are so much more we could talk about, but i will turn it over to governor mccullough if he was to close out the secession. s been a terrific afternoon. First of all, went to thank everyone. This is been one of the greatest sessions we have had with the National Governors association. I cant tell you how much we appreciate everyone coming in. I think we have a press conference right now with some of the people that will be with us. I just want to say we realize its a Global Economy and we have to trade with one another. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] live coverage of the National GovernorsAssociation Summer meeting will continue tomorrow. 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