fundamentally aligned. as we stand at this inflection point in history, i had a professor who once explained the infection point as you re going down the highway at 60 miles an hour, you rapidly turn and run a direction 5 degrees, and never get back on the same path again, but you re on a different course. whether the decisions we make in the coming years will determine the course of our world for decades to come. it happens every five or six generations, but we re at that point. nothing gives me greater confidence in the future that knowing canada and the united states stand together still. today i d like to speak a little bit about the future if i may. a future that s ours to seize. you know, i get criticized at home sometimes for saying that i used to always for president obama used to kid me because i d always say in our private meetings, the country is never more optimistic than its president or its leaders. i ve never been more optimistic in my life i really mean th