Continuing with the speech:
The year after President Kennedy spoke in Canada's parliament he delivered a famous speech at Rice University issuing a challenge for Americans to go to the Moon in a decade's Time. You remember what he said you probably do because we had to learn that we were in school:
'we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things not because it's easy because they're hard because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept one that we're willing unwilling to postpone and one which we will win'.
That speech tapped into something deep in America's character something powerful a belief that we can do big things. If you hold a second just think about it, turn on the television the last two years, whether it's in your country or mine, after two years of covid people began to wonder can we still do big thing? Big things. We sure in hell can! That confidence, I believe, a with every fiber in my opinion that confidence can make the most audacious dreams reality. In less than seven years after Kennedy's speech the entire world watched as Humanity left his first footprints on those further shores. It inspired a generation and spurred much of the technology advancement we now enriches our daily lives. Today, once more, today our world once more stands at the cusp of breakthroughs and possibilities that have never before even been dreamed of and Canada and the United States are leading, will continue to lead the way.
In just a few days, in just a few days, NASA is going to announce an international team of astronauts who will crew the Artemis II Mission. The first human Voyage of the moon since Apollo Mission ended more than 50 years ago will consist of three Americans and one Canadian. We choose to return to the Moon together, together to return to the Moon. And from there, we look forward to Mars and to the Limitless possibilities that lie Beyond.
Here on Earth our children who watch that flight are going to learn the names of those new Pioneers. They'll be the ones who carry us into the future. We hope to build. The Artemis generation! Ladies and gentlemen we're living in an age of possibilities. Xi Jinping asked me in the Tibetan Plateau could I define America, I could have said the same thing if he asked about Canada, I said yes, one word, and I mean it one word: "possibilities". Nothing is beyond our capacity. We can do anything. We have to never forget, we must never doubt our capacity. Canada and the United States can do big things. We stand together, do them together, rise together, we're going to write the future together, I promise you God bless you all and may God Bless you and protect our troops.