UN General Assembly
2014

In closing, let me just say this. There are many individual countries and many specific causes that will rightly occupy our deliberations here this week. Let us also not forget to look beyond those crises at the long- term opportunities and efforts that can truly transform the world. We have it in our power to create a better kind of world for our children’s children than the one we have today. And we should, for it was never the intention of the founders of the United Nations — Canada being one of them — that ours would be a world where terrorists could get the resources necessary to sow death and destruction but where workers and families could not get jobs and opportunities, or where mothers and children could not obtain the necessities required to live and thrive. The world that Canada strives for is the world that the founders of the United Nations wanted from the beginning, as boldly articulated in their Declaration of 1 January 1942 — a world where “life, liberty, independence and religious freedom” are defended,