00:00It's not about who we aren't, but who we are.
00:04It's not about what's lost, but it's what we have and what we can create.
00:11We are kind, generous, hardworking and ambitious people.
00:18We have what the world wants.
00:21The energy, the resources, the talent, the technology, the capital.
00:26And our greatest strength is something that can't be found on any balance sheet.
00:32Trust.
00:37Amazing.
00:40Thank you, Deb.
00:41Merci tout le monde.
00:43Bonsoir.
00:44Thank you, Deb.
00:44Thank you, John.
00:45Sorry, I got distracted.
00:47There's so much here at ROM.
00:49There's so much here in this room.
00:51I want to begin by thanking Deb, Arita, and John Graham for their leadership, for their
00:58hard work, and beyond this event, really for the decades.
01:04I'm sorry I'm aging you, but for the decades that you have both put in and contributed
01:09to Canada's success.
01:15It is.
01:18I'm absolutely delighted to be here with all of you this evening at the Royal Ontario Museum.
01:24Beautiful building, a great institution.
01:28An institution, I would note, that was founded by a banker, a Canadian banker who returned home
01:35from New York, no less.
01:37Sir Edmund Walker saw the great museums.
01:41He viewed them as shop windows through which Canadians and visitors to Canada could grasp
01:47our nation's true potential.
01:50He had an ambitious vision for this institution and an ambitious vision for our country.
01:57And while he was a very capable financier, he understood that great things require a great team.
02:04So he partnered with the provincial government.
02:06He worked with the University of Ontario.
02:08He persuaded other business leaders to join him.
02:12He brought on philanthropists, scientists, citizens to work towards a common goal.
02:19To say that those great Canadians succeeded does an injustice to their legacy.
02:24It was work that changed this city, this province, our nation.
02:28If you seek their monument, you will only find it around you.
02:34Now, it brings me to today.
02:38Once again, Canadians are coming together.
02:42Once again, our ambition is catching up with our potential.
02:48Something's changed over the past year in our country.
02:53Canadians, we all know what I'm talking about. We feel it everywhere.
02:58Canadians are standing united, buying Canadians, confidently choosing a Canadian future.
03:23The federal government, the provinces,
03:26I'd like to salute the premiers here this evening for being here this evening and for what they've been doing
03:32the past 18 months.
03:45The federal government and the provinces have been working in full partnership with First Nations, with Inuit and Métis as
03:55allies in developing projects and as owners in the projects that will shape our future.
04:03Canadian businesses and pension funds are now putting more Canadian capital behind that Canadian ambition.
04:13In the last week alone, a number of them, and I'm not going to name them because I suspect there
04:19are a few more announcements coming,
04:21a number of them have announced plans already to put hundreds of billions of dollars of additional capital to work
04:29here in Canada.
04:40And what we're doing, and when I say we, I mean we. I mean the federal government and the provinces
04:46and territories.
04:46What we're doing is looking to match that level of ambition abroad.
04:51Au cours de la dernière année, nous avons signé 20 accords de partenariat en matière de commerce et de sécurité
05:00sur quatre continents.
05:02Notre dernier accord, notre dernier accord, notre dernier accord commercial, conclu avec les Amrètes Arabes unis par le ministre de
05:12l'État international.
05:14Merci, Manny.
05:16Cet accord a été finalisé en temps record de 47 jours. 47 days for a trade deal with the UAE.
05:31And as this room knows, it's not just trade, it's also, Mr. Chartrand.
05:37Thank you, President Chartrand, for being here. As this room knows, it's not just about trade, it's also about investment.
05:43So we're shifting how we approach investment into Canada.
05:47We're relaunching Invest in Canada under new leadership with our new CEO, Gurinder Grewal.
05:53If you don't know him, you will very soon.
05:56And our new board chaired by Dominic Barton.
06:00Invest in Canada now has a clear mission to bring the world's capital here
06:05to support Canadian projects, Canadian businesses, Canadian workers.
06:12Canadian workers who are turning our ambition into reality
06:16because our economic transformation is happening on the construction sites
06:21and it's being built by the builders and unions themselves.
06:26These are all acts of solidarity.
06:29Some very large, some very small, but they're being repeated millions of times
06:33proving that together we can give ourselves far more than anyone could ever take away.
06:39And these acts of solidarity are making a statement to the world
06:42that this is a new, powerful and confident, united Canada.
06:58We're together.
07:01Thank you very much.
07:02We're together.
07:03We know that in Canada, we're together.
07:06We're together.
07:08We're together.
07:09the ones on the other, and we assure that no child, no family, no one is left for camp.
07:20This spirit of solidarity and generosity is defined as a country.
07:29Just like this fundamental conviction of Canada, unity does not require uniformity.
07:38Nous croyons que nos différences sont des atouts à cultiver et non des risques à gérer.
07:45Look around this room.
07:54This is a great room. Look around this room.
07:56We come from different regions, the east coast, the west coast, the prairies, Quebec, the far north,
08:03Ontario even, federal, provincial, indigenous governments, business, labour,
08:10Canadians from every background, every generation.
08:14Now, we will not always agree, we don't need to always agree,
08:18but we do agree on something fundamental, where we are going.
08:21There is a new consensus in this country, from Iqaluit to Victoria, to Quebec City and St. John's,
08:29and that consensus is that Canada is taking control of our future.
08:42We will build more, we will trade more with each other, we will trade more with the world,
08:49and we will create sustainable prosperity here at home.
08:53Now, tomorrow, as you know, a number of you have made this happen.
08:59Tomorrow, something remarkable will happen.
09:02The world's largest investors, managing over $120 trillion of assets,
09:10will come to peer into our shop window, because the world is looking at Canada differently.
09:19And I'd suggest we should look at ourselves differently too.
09:24It's not about who we aren't, but who we are.
09:29It's not about what's lost, but it's what we have, and what we can create.
09:36We are a kind, generous, hard-working and ambitious people.
09:43We have what the world wants.
09:46The energy, the resources, the talent, the technology, the capital.
09:51And our greatest strength is something that can't be found on any balance sheet.
09:57Trust.
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