Prime Minister Trudeau: Merci, Monsieur le President.

Female Speaker:: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Prime Minister Trudeau: Thank you, dear friends.

It's wonderful to see you all here today.

Mr. President, it's an honor to welcome you

to Parliament.

On behalf of all Canadians, welcome to our house.

(cheers, applause)

Prime Minister Trudeau: Before

we begin, I would like to

ask we begin, I would like to ask everyone

here today to join us in a moment of

silence in memory of those killed and injured in

yesterday's attack in Istanbul.

Merci.

Female Speaker:: Thank you.

Prime Minister Trudeau: Mr. President, the house

extraordinary moments in history.

It's where governments made the difficult

decision to send young men and women to war.

Decisions that forever changed our country and

the world.

It was here in 1922 that Agnes Macphail, our first

female member of Parliament, showed

generations of Canadian girls that yes, they could.

(cheers, applause)

Prime Minister Trudeau: And now, finally, this house gets

to see a bromance up close.

(laughter)

Prime Minister Trudeau: Thanks for making that possible --

(laughter)

Prime Minister Trudeau: -- although I still think

"dude-plomacy" is more accurate, but I'll get

over it.

(laughter)

Prime Minister Trudeau: The truth is that, while Barack and

I are friends, it's a friendship that is far

from unique.

[speaking foreign language]

Female Speaker:: Be it through family, friends,

social media, or even by the $2.4 billion in goods

and services that cross our border every day, the

links between Canadians and Americans are everywhere.

And it is through those relationships that we give

life to what President Kennedy stated when he

addressed this house: "What unites us is far

greater than what divides us."

Canadians and Americans are united in their quest

for peace and prosperity.

We all want real opportunities for success.

Prime Minister Trudeau: And we understand that economic

growth means most when it improves the lives of the

people who work so hard to secure it, especially the

middle class and those working hard to join it.

And we echo the values of President Roosevelt, who

said the test of our progress is not whether we

add more to the abundance of those who have so much;

it is whether we provide enough for those who have

too little.

Canadians and Americans are also united in our

desire to leave to our children and grandchildren

a better world - a safer, cleaner world - than the

one we inherited from our parents.

That's an ambitious goal, but not one beyond our reach.

Today we made an important down payment on that

cleaner future with the new Continental Climate

Change Strategy.

(cheers, applause)

Prime Minister Trudeau: And finally, and, at this moment,

critically, Canadians and Americans are united in

our understanding that diversity is a source of

strength, not weakness.

Generation after generation, our countries

have welcome newcomers seeking liberty and the

promise of a bitter life.

And generation after generation, our identities

and our economies have been enriched by these new

perspectives, not threatened by them.

The North American idea that diversity is strength

is our great gift to the world.

No matter where you are from or the faith you

profess, nor the color of your skin, nor whom you

love, you belong here.

This is home.

(cheers, applause)

Prime Minister Trudeau: So let us reaffirm today with our

American cousins the spirit that, 153 years

ago, Abraham Lincoln called "the last, best

hope on Earth": openness, diversity, inclusion,

responsible self-government, freedom

for all people - these ideas are as important

today as they have ever been.

And we will promote them together.

On all these things - on economic opportunity, on

the environment, on building a more inclusive

and diverse society - Canadians and Americans agree.

[speaking foreign language]

Female Speaker:: When people say that the

President and I share a special relationship,

there's something that they often don't realize:

We're not inspired by each other, but by the people

whom we have the privilege of serving.

From the mother who does overtime in order to pay

her rent and buy new clothing for her daughter

and save a little money to help her parents; from the

retiree who gives his time to teaching children the

importance of wetlands; the communities that come

together after a natural disaster or who walk

side-by-side, hand-in-hand, to affirm

the right to love one another.

Prime Minister Trudeau: These are the stories I will think

of when I consider President Obama's time

in office.

History books will record the signature policies,

but I will remember -- what I hope we all will

remember - are the lessons that you taught us not by

executive order but by example.

That we are accountable --

(cheers, applause)

Prime Minister Trudeau: The lesson that we are accountable

to each other, that we are stronger together than we

are apart, that we are more alike than we are

different, and that there is a place in this world

for politics that is hopeful, hardworking,

ambitious, and kind.

Mr. President, in your last State of the Union

Address you said of the American people that they

are clear-eyed, big-hearted, undaunted,

and optimistic.

I can think of no better way to describe their leader.

Barack, welcome to Canada.

[speaking foreign language]

Female Speaker:: Ladies and gentlemen, the President

of the United States of America, Barack Obama.

(cheers, applause)

President Obama: Thank you so much.

Thank you.

(applause)

Thank you, everybody.

(applause)

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Please, everyone have a seat.

Thank you.

(applause)

Thank you so much.

Good evening.

Bonjour.

Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, members of the

House, members of the Senate, distinguished

guests, people of Canada -- thank you for this

extraordinary welcome, which temps me to just shut up

and leave.

(laughter)

Because it can't get any better than this.

(laughter)

Obviously I'm grateful for the warm welcome.

I'm extraordinarily grateful for the close working

relationship and friendship with your outstanding Prime

Minister, Justin Trudeau, and his extraordinary

wife, Sophie.

But I think it's fair to say that much of this greeting

is simply a reflection of the extraordinary alliance

and deep friendship between Canadians and Americans.

Justin, thank you for your very kind words, and for the

new energy and hope that your leadership has brought

to your nation as well as to the alliance.

My time in office may be nearing an end, but I know

that Canada -- and the world -- will benefit from your

leadership for years to come.

(applause)

So Canada was the very first country that I visited

as President.

It was in February.

(laughter)

It was colder.

(laughter)