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Implications for ongoing trade talks. This portion featured a Panel Moderated by a former canadian ambassador to the u. S. With current and former government officials from mexico and canada. This is about an hour. Good morning. Good afternoon. Bon jour. Welcome. Over to you, joann. Okay. And my name is joann zimolzak. Were pleased to welcome you to the Washington Office for the nafta 2. 0 summit. Given our topic today and who we have here with us, it seems appropriate not only to say welcome, but beinvenidos. Were pleased to have you here and present this Great Program today. Which is streaming live, even as we speak, and will be available afterwards on the dentons website. Change can be unsettling, but it also presents a lot of opportunity, which im sure will be part of the discussions today. And theres so much interest thats already been generated about this program. We have over 100 people who are going to be here today with us in person and many more who are watching it over the w