00:00For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new
00:08comprehensive trade deal.
00:11We've been pragmatic, patient and persistent.
00:15We pursued every opportunity to reach an agreement that protects Canadian workers and their families,
00:22that strengthens our economy and that respects Canadian sovereignty.
00:30We've been under no illusions.
00:33We recognized from the start that America has changed.
00:38Early last year, in this room, I observed that the decades-long process of steadily increasing integration between our economies
00:46was over.
00:48Our government understood before many that America would transform all of its commercial relationships,
00:55that it would put a series of tariffs on its closest allies and use economic integration as a weapon.
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