The United States is therefore calling upon all our aviation partners, including Mexico, to join us for an aviation conference in Chicago this coming December to address international aviation in the 21st century. This leads me to the final point. We have every right to be proud of what we have done and what we will continue do together as partners. Yet at the end of the day, the vision we seek to realize is not limited to this border region. Our shared vision for the transportation future of this hemisphere is of a seamless web of highways, rail lines, shipping routes and aviation corridors, stretching from the Yukon to Tierra del Fuego.
Transportation is truly the tie that binds.
But more importantly, it lifts up the people of our nations, affording greater opportunity for all.