Excellent speech to the Economic Club of New York

Just read the speech and found it excellent. It drives home the importance of partnership with the US during a time congress seems ready to sacrifice us as collateral damage in the self-serving "protection" of their own borders. It also drives the point that Canada is an important petroleum producer with a stable democratic climate and whose economy leads the G7. He ends it by downplaying our differences by lightly teasing them about the cultural differences embedded in our constitutions and our sports and then reminds them of our shared fundamental values.
Overall it was a brilliant speech, but the message will have to be repeated over and again before the warmer attitudes translate into more profitable trading, because, unfortunately, it's exactly the kind of message that gets drowned out in their media's obsession with fuelling the shock-and-awe addictions of their (idiot) consumers.