Welcome to JForrest English Training. I'm Jennifer, and today you're going to learn
English through stories. We're going to review four different news articles,
and through this review, you're going to learn a lot of advanced vocabulary, advanced grammar,
and even correct pronunciation. Let's get started. Let me read the headline.
Canada's population surpasses 40 million
surpasses. This means more than another word is exceed. So right now Canada has more than
40 million people. Exceed is another way of saying it. So in this case,
because it is in the present simple exceeds surpasses. I'll put exceeds with an S.
Once the population of your country,
most likely it's more than 40 million because Canada has a very small population, so share.
What your country is and its population in the comments,
they will be really interesting. Now I'm Canadian if you didn't know. And interestingly,
I had no idea that Canada's population surpassed 40 million. A student shared the news with me. So
thank you to that student and now I'm reviewing the article with everyone. Let's continue on.
Statistics Canada has a population clock, so this here looks like it is the population clock
which estimates Canada's population in real time based on a number of factors.
So in real time that means as it's happening so on Saturday at 2:34 PM.
It will have the data for Canada's population and this number is always
increasing or even potentially it could decrease as well. A population can go down,
so that means in real time as it's happening, as it's happening.
Based on a number of factors, and then they list the factors like recent trends for births, that's
one factor. Deaths and migration data. Let's talk about migration. I have a lot of students who ask
and native speakers who ask what's the difference between migration and immigration? So first,
let's talk about immigration, the term you're probably more familiar with.
Immigration is the concept of permanently
moving to a foreign country. Now migration simply means moving.
So the difference really is the fact that immigration sounds more permanent where
migration, it could be someone coming to Canada to study and they're only going
to stay for their education and then they plan to go back or they're only in Canada
temporarily and then they plan to go back. So there's less of an emphasis on permanency.
So that's the main difference here,
migration data. So it's saying that this total, it represents people who are in the country even
on a temporary reason, for example, studying for a oneyear diploma, they're still counted.
In this total, the clock hit 40 million just before 3:00 PM on Friday, June 16th.
Let's talk about the verb hit. This is one of those verbs that is widely used in English and has
many different meanings depend on how it's used. Of course, there's the more literal definition
of hit, which is this hit. In this context, that's not what it means when you hit something.
In this case, it means you reach a target.
And 40 million is the target. So hit simply means reach. But when you use it,
oh, we hit 40 million, it sounds like more of an accomplishment, whereas reach doesn't have
that sense of accomplishment. So for example, in a company they might say we hit our sales goal.
For this year and it's only July, so it's only halfway through the year, but they hit their sales
goal, they reached it, they achieved it. So that's how you can use HIT as well and remember that HIT.
In the past, form is still hit. Yesterday,
we hit our sales goal. I created a free lesson PDF that summarizes everything from this lesson,
so you can look in the description for the link to download that. Let's continue. This is an
exciting milestone for Canada. A milestone is an important accomplishment for a person.
A company, a country, a group, an important accomplishments. So for you,
you might say graduating from university was a major milestone in my life or having.
A child getting married, buying my first house. Finding my first job. Notice how
I started all of those examples in the gerund. Finding my first job, So finding.
My first job or the love of my life was because the action has already been completed, was a
major. You don't have to say major, you could just say milestone was a major milestone in my life.
This is a great sentence for you to practice, so why don't you do
that right now? What was a major milestone in your life? Share that in the comments and put.
Your verb in the ING in the geron form. So put that in the comments to practice that,
and I'm excited to find out what your major milestone was.
It is a strong signal that Canada remains A dynamic and welcoming country. Dynamic is a
great adjective to add to your vocabulary, and it means having a lot of ideas and enthusiasm.
So Canada remains A dynamic country. So notice we're using
dynamic as an adjective to describe what type of country Canada is. So you could use this for your
company, your school, your organization. I work in a dynamic company, for example,
full of potential, said chief statistician.
Anil Aurora in a media statement, let's take a look at this Could be a difficult
word to pronounce. Status Titian. So notice how I connect this. Status
Titian. Status Titian. Status Titian. Try it. Status Titian Okay. You can practice that.
Chief Statistician So a statistician is someone who analyzes statistics. And by saying chief it
means they are the the main statistician, the most important, the highest rank, the highest
ranking statistician. So I'll put that highest, highest rank Canada's population growth rate.
Currently stands at 2.7%. So the growth rate means every year Canada's population increases by 2.7%,
which is the highest annual growth rate since 1957 when Canada was experiencing
its post war baby boom. Now this you may be familiar with the term baby boomers.
Baby boomers, This describes a generation and it's the generation that was born right
after the war and that generation is my parents generation. So generally people in their 60s,
seventies, 60s and 70s I believe would be considered baby boomers.
And I'm not sure if this is happening in your country, but in Canada right now,
all the baby boomers are retiring. This massive amount of people are exiting the workforce right
now. So it's a very interesting time in the economy. Baby boomers, is that
a term that you're familiar with in your country? Is there a large population that?
Resulted after the war. Share that in the comments as well. I'd be interested to know
Canada's population reached 30 million in 1997 and could reach 50 million as early
as 2043 if the current trend continues. Canada's population reached 30 million.
Now remember we could say hit 30 million because generally numbers that end in zero or five are
considered the major accomplishments, the milestones. So we could use our other verb,
we learned hit. And remember this is the past form as well. So although we have reached with
an Ed is just hit, Canada's population reach 30 million which was an important milestone.
In 1997 and could reach 50 million as early as 2043. Now notice here they used the modal
could could reach. First of all, remember that after a modal verb you only use the base form, so
modal plus base. So no to reach could to reach no modal plus base always. And this is because it's.
A potential. The possibility exists, but that doesn't mean it actually will
happen. So the potential is there, but it's not guaranteeing anything. Potential. So this is if
you understand how this is used. We use this a lot to say something like I could help you,
I could help you move this weekend, so I'm saying.
The potential is there. My schedule is open. I'm available, but
I'm not going to. Now, this isn't a very nice thing to say to someone,
but we use this as a little bit of a joke. Oh, I could help you, but I'm not going to.
Just kidding. Of course. I'll help you move this weekend, so that's a fun way you if you know the.
How to properly use could You can make a little joke like this. You probably don't
want to say that to your boss, though. I'll leave that to your discretion.
As early as they're saying, 2043 is the earliest time that this could happen.
But it could also happen later, so they're using as early as just to state the earliest time,
not that other times aren't possible. For example, if you're planning a wedding,
a party, or even a conference, you could say guess will arrive as early.
As 3:00 o'clock PM. So this doesn't mean that every guest will arrive at 3:00. This is just
the earliest time they'll arrive. Of course, it's possible for them to arrive at 3:34 o'clock
even 5:00 o'clock if they're extremely late, but this is the earliest time, as early as.
So for deadlines, you can use this. You might say I can get you the report as early as
9:00 AM. Or you could put Saturday. If so, why would you submit a report on Saturday, Tuesday?
Now you're letting your boss know or your coworker know. This is the earliest time,
but it may be later than that. OK, let's continue on.
Last year Canada's population increased by a record of 1.05 million people. You
could put 1.051.05. Both of those for pronouncing it are fine 00001.05 million
people. And I haven't mentioned this, but remember that we don't put an S.
On million, I hear students say this a lot. Oh, there are 1,000,000
in my country. No, you don't say that. It's 1,000,000. But what do you notice
about this? A lot of students forget that people is plural. It's an irregular plural,
so there's no S on it. But it is plural because what's the singular of people? Person.
One person to people. So the S is on the noun, not the number. That's why we say
I made $3 billion last year Chiching. So here you put it on the noun dollars.
Or you could say I made 3,000,000 posters. That's a lot of posters.
So you put the *** on the noun. You don't put an *** on here. 303,003
million, 3 billion singular posters. Plural.
Statistics Canada reported that 96% of that increase was due to international migration.
So notice how here they put in brackets permanent and temporary. It would have been
useful if they put that at the very top when we are talking about migration. So you knew,
but if you understand the word migration, you know that it means both permanent and
temporary. Because remember, that's how I explained the difference to you.
So just moving, so I'll add that moving permanently or temporarily
for migration and immigration, it implies permanent you want to stay in that country
permanently. Let's get back to it. In 2022, Canada welcomed 437,000.
OK, 430 cent. When I see three zeros, I know that the number before is 1437.
You don't have to say 437, it's not necessary 437,180. And remember, the S
goes on the noun immigrants into the country, reflecting Canada's high immigration targets.
Now, because this is a target, remember, when you're talking about reaching or achieving that,
you can use the verb hit. We hit our target. We hit our target,
which means you reached or achieved that target. Immigration is one of the main way.
Immigration is one of the main way, the country.
Does that sound weird to you? Immigration is one of the main way the country deals.
Something's wrong with this. There's a typo or a minor grammar mistake. Because
this has to say way, it's not optional right now. This article has a typo,
which means there's a grammar mistake in the article. It has to be Ways okay.
Now this sometimes confuses students. Because you have one of. When you have one of,
it means you're selecting one from a group. So the noun that comes next has
to be plural because one of. OK, here's an easy example. One of.
So my noun has to be plural. Flavors. Flavors. One of my favorite flavors.
Of ice cream is, we use is because is, matches, 11 is, and then you provide one option. So I wouldn't
list two or three flavors. I only list one mint chocolate chip. What is one of your favorite
flavors of ice cream? So this implies I have other favorite flavors and I'm just sharing one.
So share that in the comments. What is one of your favorite flavors of ice cream
and practices? And make sure you get that. S and I'll cross this out so you know it was a mistake.
Immigration is one of the main ways the country deals with its demographic challenges. Canada
has an aging population. Remember I shared that the baby boomers, they're all becoming.
6070, they're exiting the workforce. They're aging, becoming older. So that's aging,
becoming older, becoming older. Now technically we're all aging,
we're all becoming older. Canada has an aging population and the natural birth rate is not high
enough to grow the population itself. By having natural birth rate, they mean the birth rate of.
Canadians of people in Canada,
and they included that because it relates to the next sentence. As a result, Canada needs
immigrants. We need people from other countries, maybe you, to come to Canada permanently to help
maintain and grow the country's workforce. Because remember I said the baby boomers are
exiting the workforce because they're all 60-70 years old. They're ready to retire.
So again, if you haven't shared in the comments, I would be very interested to know if this is a
situation that your country is dealing with as well. Immigration accounts for almost 100% of
Canada's labor force growth. Wow, 100% almost. That's quite a staggering statistic. According
to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. This is just the name of a government department.
By 2023, immigrants are projected to be about 30% of Canada's population, so projected. This means
calculated based on information already known. So you could say estimated,
but when you say estimated, it sounds more of a guess because when you estimate something,
you don't actually have the information.
But when you project something, it's more based on looking at the information and then making a
prediction based on that information. So it sounds more accurate to me than estimated.
Immigrants are projected to be about 30% of Canada's population.
Now, one other thing I noticed about the article is that they said by 2023.
This seems odd to me. Does it seem odd to you or do you know why? It seems odd to me.
This is a new article. This article is from June 2023,
but if you say by 2023 you're saying 2023 is the deadline, but 2023 starts January 1st.
And we are in June, which is already several months, but they're saying it is projected to
happen by a deadline that's technically in the past. So that to me doesn't make sense.
I wonder if 2023 is a typo and maybe they meant to say 2025 or a date in the future
because we can't use by with a timeline in the past and when this article was written in June
2023 this was already in the past. Another way to correct this mistake is to say by.
The end of 2023, because now the deadline is December 2023, which is in the future,
but by 2023 means January 2023, which is currently in the past. And it does
not make sense to me to say bye and a past date. If you're talking about
a future projection. Again, the final way is you could say bye.
2025 and have a date in the future. So that's how I would correct this as well.
And that's the end of the article.
And what I'll do now is I'll go to the top and I'll read the article from start to finish and
this time you can focus on my pronunciation. Canada's population surpasses 40 million.
Statistics Canada has a population clock which estimates Canada's population in real time based
on a number of factors like recent trends for birth deaths and immigration data. The clock hit
40 million just before 3:00 PM on Friday, June 16th. This is an exciting milestone for Canada.
It is a strong signal that Canada remains A dynamic and welcoming country full of potential,
said Chief Statistician Anil Aurora in a media statement. Canada's population
growth rate currently stands at 2.7%, which is the highest annual growth rate since 1957,
when Canada was experiencing its post war baby boom.
Canada's population reached 30 million in 1997 and could reach 50 million
as early as 2043 if the current trends continue, according to Statistics Canada.
Last year, Canada's population increased by a record of 1.05 million people. Statistics
Canada reported that 96% of that increase was due to international permanent and temporary
migration in 2022. Canada welcomes 437,180 immigrants into the country, reflecting Canada's.
High immigration targets Immigration is one of the main ways the country deals with its demographic
challenges. Canada has an aging population, and the natural birth rate is not high enough to grow
the population itself. As a result, Canada needs immigrants to help maintain and grow
the country's workforce. Immigration accounts for almost 100% of Canada's labor force growth.
According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, by 2023 immigrants are projected to be
about 30% of Canada's population. Amazing job with that article. Now feel free to hit pause,
take a break, go get a cup of coffee or tea, review the vocabulary you just learned,
and when you're ready, hit play and we'll continue on with the next article.
Can you guess where this is, Which country this might be?
Well, this is India, and it looks pretty crowded, doesn't it? And that's what we're
talking about in this article, because China is now the most populous country in the world.
And we know that because of our headline. Let me read the headline India overtakes
China as most populous country. First, let's talk about our verb here, Overtake.
Let me share the definition. This verb simply means to go past something past in the sense
of exceed, and you do that by being a greater amount, so quantity or degree.
We use this a lot with statistics or reporting on numbers, facts,
figures. You'll hear this a lot about sales. For example,
U.S. sales have overtaken European sales, so sales in the US compared to sales in Europe.
Now, I could also use our sentence structure here. Notice the preposition as.
I could say the US has overtaken Europe as the leader in sales. So this is the
title that has been achieved, the leader in sales and the title goes to the US.
And it also suggests that previously Europe was the leader,
but now if you're imagining they're in a competition or a race, Europe was ahead,
but now the US has overtaken Europe. So it does suggest that element of competition
between the two as well, because previously, before this, China was the most populous.
And India was a close second, but now India has overtaken. So that's the go past part,
which is an important part of this definition. So I'll just underline
that. Let's continue on. India has overtaken China as the world's most populous nation,
according to Bloomberg, referring to the World Population Review.
All right, so we've already discussed overtaken and I did use the same verb tense
have overtaken because it was plural. They they have noticed. Now it's has because it's India,
which is conjugated as it singular. It has. And the reason why this is in
the present perfect is because it's a past action.
So the action is complete. It's a completed past action, but there's a result in the present
past action with a result in the present. What's the result in the present now, China?
Is the second most populous country, and India is the most populous country. That's
the result in the present, and that's why the verb tense is in the present perfect.
Let's continue on. By the end of 2022, India's population was 1.417 billion people.
So if you have numbers after the decimal point, you can simply see them as the individual numbers
1.417. You don't have to say 1.417, that doesn't sound right. So say the numbers
as individual numbers. I'll just write this out for you. Say the numbers as individual.
Numbers after the decimal point and the decimal point is. This
is the same thing as a period. But when we're referring to numbers specifically,
we don't call it a period, we call it a decimal point. And that's why when I say it out loud,
I don't say one period 417, you don't say that, you say one point.
417, so let me just write that. So you understand, you say 1.417, that is how you verbalize this
number, 5,000,000 more than China. So we could also say using our overtake, India has overtaken.
China by 5 million people. The people is optional
because in this context we know we're talking about population. So you don't have to say
people if it's obvious, but if you if you're ever not sure, just add in the reference point.
India has overtaken China by 5 million people, so remember it's.
India has gone past or exceeded China and then you can have buy. If you're talking about a specific
number, you could also do a percentage. I don't know what the percentage is, so I'll just say
0.7%. You could also have buy and then a percent, zero point. Remember that point, 7% percent.
Let's continue on.
On January 17th, I want you to notice my pronunciation because even though it isn't
written as the little t H, you know when you see the date and it gives you the little t H 17th.
Notice what my mouth is doing? My tongue comes between my teeth and I push out 17th.
17th That's the pronunciation practice that I know. It's a difficult sound for a lot
of students, but that is how we say the dates out loud. On January 17th, Chinese authorities
announced that for the first time since the 1960s, the country's population will decrease by 850,000.
So let's just talk about this number here. We're going to see some big numbers in the
billions. Now when you have 3 zeros, it's 1003 zeros, that represents 1850.
A lot of native speakers will say 850. You do not need to say. And sometimes
I say it as well, but it is not necessary. It's
850,000. And notice it's not 850. Thousands plural. No, 850,000. Okay, singular.
In 2022, compared to the previous year, according to the State Statistics department of China,
1.141 billion people live in the country. Now. Remember I said the number is singular,
Right? The number is singular, but whatever the number represents is plural.
Now people does not have an S because people is the plural form of person is an irregular plural
form. So we have one person, two people. So people is the plural. Now if it were something like.
Dollars you need to add the S on dollars. 1.141
billion is singular and then the whatever the number represents,
in this case money dollars. That's where you add the S but it could be for example 1.41 billion.
Tshirts. Why not tshirts? So you put the S on tshirts. Or it could be 1.141 billion cats,
and then you put the S on cats. So that's why billion is singular. But then whatever
it represents is plural. Let's continue on according to World Population Review.
As of January 18th, 18th, so even though in the spelling it is not there, I'm going to
pronounce that T H as of January 18th, India's population reached 1.423 billion. Another
research organization, Macro Trends claims that India is home to 1.428 billion people.
So there's a slight difference in number between these two research organizations,
but it's such a small difference, I'm surprised they even mentioned it. It's
basically the same number, right? Let's continue on.
China and India are the only two countries with populations over 1 billion, One billion
singular. Again, if you wanted to, you could add people, which is plural, 1 billion people
over. Another word could be with populations more than.
More than or exceeding would be another word, but we can't use our overtake because remember,
overtake is only used when we're talking about competition between two or more
and then one goes past one exceeds. So I'm specifying this because I did say exceed here,
but overtake is specifically if there's some sort of competition.
And in this case, there is no competition, they're just stating a fact of the population
of specific countries. the US Census Bureau's World Population Clock lists
another 12 countries with populations exceeding. So notice here they use exceeding rather than with
populations over or populations more than their synonyms. You can choose whichever you'd like.
Exceed probably sounds the most formal. I would say exceeding 100 million. So let's see,
is your country on the list? the US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil,
Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico, Japan, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Egypt.
My country, Canada, is not on the list. We have a very small population. I actually don't know what
the population is, so I'm going to Google it right now. So I just googled it. Any guesses
on the population of Canada? Canada's population? Canada's population is 38.25.
Million Very small, right? Considering it's a huge country but very small population. So
what's the population of your country? Feel free to share in the comments below. Let's continue on.
OK, here's where we're getting to some really big numbers. If this intimidates you, don't worry,
because it intimidates native speakers. I'm sure if you saw a big number in your country,
you'd probably stop for a second too. So I will explain how to know what this number is
the projected world population on January 1st.
OK, here we have a difference because with one you need St. first first.
The difference between the other one is my tongue
is not going between my teeth. Notice 1st 1st January, 1st January, 1st January 5th.
January 5th, that's with five fifth. Let me write that January 5th and then we have
January 2nd and you just added sound and 2nd and then we have one final choice which is third.
These are pretty easy because you just basically added D sound on the end. This one you need that
and then this one you need. So practice those. I will say them one more time for you. January 1st,
January 2nd, January 3rd, January 5th, so you can practice that.
The projected. When something is projected, it means you're guessing or you're estimating what
the number will be based on data or information. So you don't know 100% that this is what the
number will be. Is the projected number. So the definition projected This is an estimate.
And the estimate is calculated based on known information. And notice how specific they are
with the projected number. That's pretty specific. So we'll see if that's correct.
We actually know what the world population is at the time this video was recorded. So you can
go see if this was true or not. OK, so now I'll read this number. So first of all, what is this?
Well, I will. I know by how many groups of three there are. OK. So if there are one,
2-3 groups of three, then I know this is billion and then this is million, OK, billion million.
And then this is 1000 thousand
and I'm just going to focus on one group. That's how you make this long number very
easy to read or understand. You just look at the individual groupings, so 7,942,000,000.
645,086 and the final group, you don't say anything after it, it's just 86. Remember I
said we don't need to say and so I don't say 942 million, it's just 942,645,086.
So you can practice, write out some random long numbers and practice reading them out loud. That
will be helpful. Now let's take a look at our next big number. So I can tell I have three groups, so
I know I have million and then thousand. And then remember the final one is nothing, 73 million.
772,634, so that's the amount of the increase. And remember that's the world population,
but this is just projected, which it means it's an estimate and as a percentage that's 0.94%
and this is calculated from New Year's Day 2022.
During January 2020, three 4.3 bursts and 2.0 deaths are expected worldwide every second.
So here's another example where the whatever you're calculating is plural.
So we have bursts. That's why it hasn't us, because there's more than one, right?
And deaths. If it was just one, we wouldn't have the plural. And you would say one death,
one death. There was one death
this month, for example. There were two deaths at that us this month. So practice the numbers
and the plurals. I hear lots of mistakes from students with both of those and they're expected.
You could also use projected because it's just an estimate based on known information,
so you could say that as well worldwide, every second, every second.
So that's our article. You learned a lot of big numbers, a lot of data and statistics. I
hope you found it interesting. Now what I'll do is I'll read the article from start to finish
and you can follow along with my pronunciation. India overtakes China as most populous country.
India has overtaken China as the world's most populous nation. According to Bloomberg,
referring to the World Population Review,
by the end of 2022, India's population was 1.417 billion people, 5,000,000 more than China.
On January 17th, Chinese authorities announced that for the first time since the 1960s.
The country's population will decrease by 850,000 in 2022 compared to the previous year, according
to the State Statistics Department of China. 1.141 billion people live in the country. According to
World Population Review, as of January 18th, India's population reach 1.423 billion.
Another research organization, Macro Trends, claims that India's home to 1.4 to 8 billion
people, China and India are the only two countries with populations over 1 billion. the US Census
Bureau's World Population Clock lists another 12 countries with populations exceeding 100 million.
The US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico, Japan, Ethiopia,
the Philippines and Egypt. The projected world population on January 1st, 2023 is 7,942,647,086.
An increase of 73,772,634 or 0.94% from New Year's Day 2022 during January
2020. Three 4.3 births and 2.0 deaths are expected worldwide every second.
Amazing job with that article. Now feel free to hit pause, take a break,
go get a cup of coffee or tea. Review the vocabulary you just learned and when you're ready,
hit play and we'll continue on with the next article. Let me read the headline
Canada US sign deal to better coordinate Fight against wildfires, Wildfires.
Let's take a look here at this preposition against.
Just take note that you fight against something. In this case, wildfires is a noun. You can also
have a verb after against, and because against is a preposition, that verb would be in the geron
form, the ING form, for example, fight against paying taxes. Let's say you want to fight against.
Paying taxes. Not again against paying taxes. So here you have the ING the Jaron verb.
Let's continue. Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and David Cohen,
the US ambassador to Canada, signed a memorandum of understanding.
A Memorandum of understanding. As you can see, this is a very long word. We often use an acronym,
MOU&MOU, so you'll see this a lot in news articles,
but especially in business related news, even on a website.
An MOU, we have an MOUA Memorandum of understanding. An MOU is simply an
arrangement or a deal between two parties to do something specific
signed a memorandum of understanding. So they agreed to the terms of this arrangement
Thursday and this is the terms of the arrangement to improve cross.
Border cooperation on wildfires. The cross-border represents that Canada and the US are divided by
a border. So the cross-border is offering support. So Canada will offer support to
the US and the US will offer support to Canada. That's the cross-border.
So let me write that for you. cross-border, This represents the fact that Canada and.
The US share a border cooperation on wildfires, while the two countries have worked together on
an ad hoc basis for decades. First of all, you should always be looking at your time
references in a sentence to understand what verb tense you need. So here we have 4 decades. What?
Verb tense is needed. This should be easy because the verb tense is right there,
The present perfect. The present perfect because Canada and the US started working
together in the past and they still work together now. So the present perfect for
an action that started in the past and continues until now. Present perfect.
And we know that we need the present perfect because of our keyword for decades. So this
is our keyword for the present perfect keyword. So we can say time reference.
Now if this were something different, such as last year, what would my verb tends be?
Last year is a completed past action so I would change this to the past simple. For example
the two countries worked together last year or if my keyword was next year what would you say now
the two countries will work?
Together next year. So always look at your time reference to determine your
verb tense and ask yourself if you have the correct verb tense. Let's continue. First,
before we continue, let's take a look at ad hoc basis. What does ad hoc basis mean?
First of all, the expression is all of this on an ad hoc ad hoc basis.
This means as it happens, as it happens. So there is no agreement previously determined. They decide
how to work together as it happens. I'll give you an example. Let me just write this as it happens.
For example, you could say I.
Decide where to travel to on an ad hoc basis. Remember, on an ad hoc basis, all of that
together. I decide where to travel to on an ad hoc basis, which means when I need to travel, let's
say once every three months, I just decide at that moment. As it happens, I don't decide in advance.
Or you could say we solve problems on an ad hoc basis, which means as the problem happens,
you decide how you're going to solve it. You don't necessarily have a process.
That you decided on in advance to solve that problem. So that is how the two countries
worked in the past and continue to work now because of our present perfect. But it sounds
like this memorandum of understanding will specify how the countries will work together,
which means they will no longer be working on an ad hoc basis because they,
the Memorandum of understanding, will tell them how they will work together.
While the two countries have worked together on an ad hoc basis for decades, the New Deal,
which is the memorandum of understanding the MOU, let me write that the MOU
formalizes that cooperation and makes it easier for US firefighters.
To pitch in when Canada needs them to quell a fire. To quell a fire simply means to stop a fire,
as is happening. So right now they're trying to quell the fire. It's a very
specific term. You won't need that in your everyday speech, but based on the context,
it should be obvious because what do you do with the fire? You stop it.
Let's take a look at pitch in US firefighters to pitch in. When you pitch in, it means you
contribute. You can contribute your time, your resources. You could also contribute your money.
For example, everyone pitched, pitched in, and bought Fred a present for his retirement.
So this suggests that everyone on the team gave money, maybe $5.10 dollars $20 and then
all that money went towards one present. So that is financially. You can also pitch in,
in terms of your time. Everyone pitched in and let me write a new example here.
Everyone pitched in and cleaned the apartment. So here is not necessarily that people gave money,
but they gave their time, they gave their effort, they gave their.
Hard work. Everyone pitched in and cleaned the impart the apartment, so everyone contributed
towards a specific objective. So in this case the specific objective is clean the apartment.
In this case it's to buy a present. So pitch in is to contribute, contribute to something
specific and it can be money, it can be time, it can be other resources as well.
So in this case, it will make it easier for US firefighters to pitch in.
So maybe they will give money, but most likely they'll give their their
skills they'll give themselves to to help Quell stop the fires.
And vice versa. Vice versa is when you want to say the opposite is true. So US firefighters pitch in
when Canada needs them, but also Canada pitches in when the US needs support. So vice versa,
I'll help you and you'll help me vice versa. So here the opposite is also true, vice versa.
Now, I summarize all of these notes in a free lesson PDF, so you can look in the description
to download the free PDF. Let's continue as part of the deal the MOU. There's now a new framework
that stipulates how firefighting resources will be exchanged between the two countries.
Stipulates This is another word for outline or determine. So the framework
determines how the resources will be exchanged. It outlines, it stipulates.
Basically it says it says outlines determines how the resources will
be exchanged, so how Canada will pitch in when the US needs support and vice versa.
All right, let's continue. The deal is designed to cut through the red tape. Oh,
what is red tape? You are very familiar with red tape. Red tape represents.
Official rules or processes, but that seem unnecessary. So when you have to
do something simple like change your address and you have to fill out seven different forms
and mail them to seven different people, doesn't that seem a little unnecessary?
So you can say, oh, there's so much red tape, red tape. We usually use this when
dealing with the government, but you can also use this for a large organization.
Or any organization, but generally large organizations like Google, IBM, They will
have a lot of red tape as well because they are so large, they have so many different processes that
you need to follow, but many of them might seem seem unnecessary. So let me write that for you.
And to cut through the red tape means to try to reduce it.
So this deal is to try to make these processes work better, more efficient, more effective,
and bring together the agencies on both sides of the border. Remember that other
expression was cross-border, so you could use that as an
adjective and say and bring together the cross-border agencies, the cross-border.
Agencies now of course in Canada's case is Canada and the US But US
also shares a border with Mexico, so it could be the US and Mexico
could be cross-border. So whatever country that you border with would be
the cross-border agency or country that have had a hand in fighting these destructive fires.
To have a hand in something or doing something is an idiom and it means simply
to be involved with something or have influence on something. And notice in is a preposition,
so the verb will be a gerund verb ING. But you can also use a noun, so you might say who had a hand.
In the party in Fred's retirement party, remember Fred? We all pitched in to buy
him a present. Who had a hand in the party who had Because remember to have our verb is have.
So this is have in the past. Simple. Who had a hand, A hand in the party in Fred's party?
And then I could say, oh, I had a hand in planning Fred's party. So this simply means
you're involved in it, or do you influence it in some way? So maybe you were responsible for
deciding what present to buy Fred so you had a hand in the party. Let's continue.
The deal also calls for better information sharing so that both
countries can stop a fire quell a fire before it spirals out of control. When
something spirals out of control, it simply loses control quickly.
And it implies that it's difficult to bring it back under control. So to lose control quickly,
lose control quickly. You can use this in workplace situations because let's
say you're having a meeting and you're negotiating something during this meeting.
You could say our negotiations spiraled out of control, which means you lost control of
the negotiations. So maybe you wanted to offer a certain amount and then.
Now everyone is talking about an amount that is a lot higher than you wanted to offer.
So your control over that negotiation, over the amount that you wanted to pay,
you lost control over that, and you lost control quickly. So it
spiraled out of control. For example, our negotiations spiraled out of control.
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now have easy access to sophisticated US satellite data that can identify fires.
The deal comes as Canada grapples with a record-breaking wildfire season.
To grapple with is another way of saying to deal with, to deal with, and we use this
with something negative. You grapple with a problem, an issue to grapple with.
So you might say we're grappling with the negotiations, we're dealing with the
negotiations. And because I already explained that the negotiations have spiraled out of control,
you know that there's something negative there. We're grappling with the negotiations.
The US has already deployed more than 1500 firefighters. Deploy
is a verb to mean when you move either people or resources from
one location to another in order to support that other location.
So here you can deploy the firefighters because they're people. You can also deploy resources,
deploy support, deploy food, deploy aid. So to deploy you move from one place to another.
It can be within a country as well, so Texas deployed resources to California for example,
but we commonly see this when 1 country deploys it to another.
The US has already deployed more than 1500 firefighters to Canada
to help local authorities. Canada has received support from other countries like Australia,
Chile and South Africa. Thank you to those countries. We appreciate the support.
Here, Canada's receiving the support. But you could say Australia deployed support to Canada.
Chile deployed support to Canada. Just like here, the US deployed these resources, the firefighters
to Canada. Canadian firefighters have helped out the neighbors in years past, the neighbors being.
The US, they're our neighbors to the South and where their neighbors to the north here help
out. This is an optional phrasal verb. Notice here is a phrasal verb because you have the
verb help and you have the preposition out. You don't need out. It's optional.
You can simply say Canadian firefighters have helped the neighbors in years past.
Have helped. It's simply optional. Can you help me out? Can you help me? There's no difference
there. Can you help me out? Can you help me? But if you do use the phrasal verb, make sure you
know the correct placement, because you can't say Can you help out me? Can you help out me?
That's incorrect because the pronoun needs to come between help and out. Can you help
me out? Can you help me? So if you're not too sure about sentence structure,
just use the verb form so you don't make any grammatical mistakes. In 2020, for example,
Canadian firefighters were deployed to the northwestern US. So remember, Canada sends.
The firefighters and the US receives the firefighters because we used
the verb deploy deploy during a particularly ugly wildfire season.
This is the kind of thing that Canada and the US can do together. We will always have your back,
Cohen said. And remember, Cohen is the ambassador to Canada, so he is an American.
And the ambassador, the US ambassador to Canada. So Cohen is saying we,
the United States, will always have your Canada's back. So let me write that because
I want to explain this expression to have one's back so the US will always have Canada's back.
So the expression is to have one's back. And that's why I changed it to the US and Canada,
because I wanted you to see this possessive, to have one's back. It's possessive. This is
the expression to have one's back. And this simply is used to say, to support. So if I say.
I have your back. I have your back. I'm saying I am there to
support you in whatever way you need that support. Don't worry,
I have your back. I have your back. So that's a very nice thing for the US to say. We will always,
I like this, always have your back. So thank you to the US for having our back.
So you could say that thank you for so let's say someone says don't worry I have your back you can
say thank you for having my back or in this case because it was we and your I could say thank you
for having our back and our representing all of Canada. So our my back thank you for is.
A gerund expression because for is a preposition,
so you need the ING. Thank you for having my back. Don't worry, I always have your back
when it comes to improving your English. So you can say thank you Jennifer, for having my back,
my back. And then you could say thank you for having my back when it comes to teaching me.
English because remember it's support, but you can offer it for something specific when
it comes to when it comes to teaching me English. So you can put that in the
comments if you want to thank me for always having your back. And that is
the end of our article. So what I'll do now is I will read the article from start
to finish and this time you can focus on my pronunciation. So I'll do that now.
Canada US sign deal to better coordinate fight against wildfires
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and David Cohen, the US ambassador to Canada,
signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to improve cross-border cooperation on wildfires.
While the two countries have worked together on an ad hoc basis for decades,
the New Deal formalizes that cooperation and makes it easier for US firefighters to pitch in when
Canada needs them to quell a fire and vice versa. As part of the deal, there's now a new framework
that stipulates how firefighting resources will be exchanged between the two countries.
The deal is designed to cut through red tape and bring together the agencies
on both sides of the border that have a hand in fighting these destructive fires.
The deal also calls for better information sharing so that both
countries can stop a fire before it spirals out of control. For example,
Canada will now have easy access to sophisticated US satellite data that can identify fires.
The deal comes as Canada grapples with a recordbreaking wildfire season.
the US has already deployed more than 1500 firefighters to Canada
to help local authorities. Canada has received support from other countries like Australia,
Chile and South Africa. Canadian firefighters have helped out the neighbors in past years.
In 2020, for example, Canadian firefighters were deployed to the northwestern US during
a particularly ugly wildfire season. This is the kind of thing that Canada
and the US can do together. We will always have your back, Cohen said.
Amazing job with that article. Now feel free to hit pause, take a break, go get a cup of
coffee or tea. Review the vocabulary you just learned, and when you're ready, hit play. And
we'll continue on with the next article U.S. President Joe Biden touches down in Ottawa.
First, let's talk about this phrasal verb touchdown, and notice we have an
S on it because it's conjugated with Joe Biden, which represents the subject he.
U.S. President Joe Biden. He touches down in
Ottawa. Now to touchdown. This means to land and we use it specifically for
a plane as an example. I could say my plane just touched down, which means my plane just.
Landed. To be honest, I would say that landed is more common than
using the phrasal verb touchdown. So if you're already comfortable with using,
what time does your plane land? My plane just landed. I say keep using it, but at least now
you know what it means when you see it. OK, let's continue on and talk about his trip in Canada.
U.S. President Joe Biden arrived Thursday evening in
Ottawa for a whirlwind 27 hour visit. Now, first I want to point out that
for everyone who doesn't know the capital city of Canada is Ottawa. It is not Toronto. I think
probably 90% of people think the capital city in Canada is Toronto. That's just not true Ottawa.
Is the capital city, which is where all the official government business takes place,
and which is why President Joe Biden is visiting
Ottawa and not Toronto. Toronto is Canada's largest city,
OK, so make sure you know that the next time someone asks you about the capital of Canada.
Arrives Thursday evening in Ottawa for a whirlwind 27 hour visit. OK,
what is a whirlwind? Whirlwind pronunciation Whirlwind A whirlwind. Now this is being used
as an adjective and we often describe an event.
Like a visit, a meeting, a vacation, a conference as a whirlwind vacation,
a whirlwind conference, a whirlwind meeting, a whirlwind visit is simply a visit where many,
many things happen in a short period of time. So very.
Active, many different activities. So he's going to go to a lot of different places,
meet a lot of different people as well. And that's why you could describe your vacation or a meeting
or a conference or even your summer. I had a whirlwind summer. It implies that you did many,
many different things. You saw many, many different people. So I would say busy, eventful.
See lots of people things. That's how I would describe it. And this is an adjective,
so that's an adjective. So as an adjective, you would put it before what you're describing.
Expected to focus on both the friendly and thorny aspects of the Canada US relationship. OK,
so friendly. You know what that means. What about thorny? Well, Thorn is.
Something very sharp and a thorn hurts you. So that's kind of what you want to imagine. Those
aspects of the relationship that are thorny, that can hurt you. So in this case, I would just say
the positive aspects of the relationship, that's the friendly aspects and then the thorny are the
negative aspects of the relationship because obviously these two countries probably don't.
Share the same opinion on every single topic. They probably have some debate that they're going
to have as well. So that would be, I would just summarize it as negative, negative, so you could
describe your relationship. I have a thorny relationship with my boss, with my coworker,
so you're saying you know it's negative. There are things that hurt each other in that relationship.
OK, thorny aspects of the Canada US relationship. I don't know what those aspects are, I guess right
here, including protectionism and migration on both sides of the border. So I'm not sure
if these are the friendly aspects or the thorny aspects. They don't really specify. Now actually,
before we move on, I want to talk about the pronunciation of Canada.
Because I actually hear a lot of mispronunciation because of syllable stress. So a lot of students
will put the stress on the wrong syllable or they won't put any stress on it. So it's Canada. It's
not Canada, Canada. Sometimes I hear that where the da is really strong. Canada. No,
Canada. Canada, OK.
That's how you say it. Like an American. Like a Canadian, Canada. So this, duh,
is quite sure. Canada. Canada. So now you know the capital of Canada, the largest city,
and you know how to correctly pronounce it. All of these notes are available in a lesson PDF,
so you can look in the description or the comment section to download the free lesson PDF.
All right, let's continue on. Is quite a packed schedule. So a packed schedule. This is just
another way of saying busy, busy. Now you could also think of it as crowded because you can say
the event, the event was packed, and in this case packed means crowded.
So there were many, many people in the event, so you couldn't really move around. It was crowded.
But because we're talking about a schedule, it really more means busy. Now honestly, you could
use our same adjective as before and probably say it's quite a whirlwind schedule, because what is
a busy schedule? It's when you do lots of things, see lots of people, meet with lots of people well.
That's also kind of the definition of busy, right? So you could use our other adjective, whirlwind.
Or you can use packed as well and then know that packed can mean crowded at the same time.
So in terms of busy, you could say my weekend was packed,
my weekend was packed, which means it was busy.
Now sometimes we actually add, which is kind of fun. I like saying this. We add the word action
in front. Oh, my weekend was action-packed. You don't have to say that, you can simply say packed,
but that's just an option. action-packed or packed. All right, it was quite a packed schedule
for a short trip, said White House National Security Council spokesman. That's a long title.
John Kirby on Wednesday.
This is a meaningful visit. Canada is one of the United States closest allies. Notice they have
this apostrophe. This is to show possession. Then United States closest allies and friends. So the
allies belongs to the United States. The friends belong to the United States. So that's why now.
Generally with possession, I would say that's my friend's shirt. So that is when
I'm talking about my one friend, right? So my one friend, singular. Now this S is not plural,
is to show possession is to show the shirt belongs to my friend. OK, now I could say.
That's my friends because I can say my friends and it could be plural. That's my friends. What
could be a multiple item belonging to my friends? That's my friend's dog. OK, let's say I have two
friends and they live in the same house and they share one dog. So the dog belongs to my friends.
Two friends, plural. But I just put the apostrophe here because there is already
an S so I don't need to put another S because that looks weird, right? So you don't need to
put another S if it ends in an S and this is to show possession. This is also to show possession.
OK, Canada is one of the United States closest friends and allies and friends and has been
now for more than 150 years. Why is it 150 years? Because that's how long Canada has been a country.
It's been 150, two or three years. That's why they say more than so since we became a country.
This will be the first true inperson bilateral meeting.
A bilateral meeting is a meeting between two people. So it's just another way of
of saying two people. I don't know why they really said it, because
it's already implied, because it's Joe Biden and Trudeau and they're two people. Anyway,
you could say I'm having a bilateral meeting with my boss and this implies that.
The meeting is between you and your boss because
bilateral is with two people. Now let's say it's actually my boss's
friend. I can't think of anything else, so I'll say friend. But notice this is possessive because
the friend belongs to my boss. Boss already ends in S, so I don't need to put another S there.
If it were the other way around, my friend's boss, I put's because it does not end in S
and this is also showing possession. I have a bilateral meeting with my friend's boss.
OK, let me highlight that for you between the two leaders in Canada since 2009.
So we'll be the first true in person bilateral meeting now adding in person
because obviously in the last few years a lot of meetings have taken place online,
so it suggests that it's possible they had an online bilateral meeting.
It's possible now. Notice we have since since plus a specific time since 2009 since.
Last summer since March 5th and we use four with a time period for two weeks,
two years now. In this context, 4 doesn't work. You wouldn't replace, it will be the first.
In person meeting for two weeks, it doesn't make any sense, so we can't replace it with
four. But I'm just letting you know that there are specific times when you use sense or 4IN
other cases because I do see mistakes with those. In this case we need to use sense and
we're we have to have a specific time because sense is only used with a specific time. OK?
The first year of Biden's term. So here's another possessive The term belongs to Biden.
The first year of Biden's term focused on rebuilding
Canada. US relations following Trump's divisive term in in office. All right,
let's take a look at this. Focused on rebuilding, rebuilding. So notice a couple things. One.
It's in the gerund form. My verb is in the ING gerund form. Why?
Because I have a preposition. Here on is a preposition, and when we have a preposition,
you're following verb. In this case, rebuilding needs to be in the ING in the gerund form.
So that's our gerund. So I'll just write that out for you. Preposition plus gerund.
Now we have a re in front of building to say is happening again,
so we're building it again, you might say. Jennifer, this lesson was awesome,
but I need to re watch it. I need to watch it again. Why? Well, because you need to
practice everything I'm teaching you in this lesson, right? I need to re watch.
This lesson at least three times to really fully learn everything I'm teaching you in this lesson
because I'm going quite fast, aren't I? So this means watch again and notice for pronunciation
re E I'm not doing like a schwa sound. Ruh ruh ruh watch.
American pronunciation. We love our unstressed schwa sound in our throat here,
but I'm not doing that. This is a full E re rewatch, rewatch.
Watch it again. So hopefully you rewatch this lesson. Let me know if you're going to rewatch it.
OK, let's talk about this divisive, divisive, visive, divisive, divisive.
Trump's divisive term in office, divisive, comes from the word division. Division,
which also comes from the word divided. When people are divided, when there's
division between a group of people, it means some people think this and other people think that.
And divisive is the adjective that's describing that as an example. I could say his policy is
very divisive. It causes some people to be here and other people to be here. It
causes division. It divides people. So it's implying that Trump caused division
between the United States and Canada, or at least their relationship. Let's continue on.
The second focused on meeting obligations, The second, remember here we are talking about the
first year of Biden's term. Now we're talking about the second, the second year of Biden's term,
The 2nd focused on meeting obligations. So again, on is our preposition. So we have our Jaron here,
meeting obligations.
Including prioritizing orderly and safe migration through regular pathways, Kirby said,
now heading into the third, the third year of his term. Heading into. We use the word
head as a replacement to the word go, so you could say going into the third term.
Going or I guess in this case you might want to think of it as entering, but go, there's movement,
right? And enter, there's movement as well. I'm going into the store. I'm entering the store now.
We do use head a lot. You could say I'm heading to the store. When do you head to the airport?
And in this case, it means go. I'm going to the store. When do you go to
the airport? It's extremely common. It sounds very natural. Americans,
we love saying head as a replacement for go. So you can start with these two expressions and then
add on some more to your vocabulary once you get comfortable with them. Now heading into the third.
This visit is about taking stock of what we've done, where we are,
what we need to prioritize for the future, OK? When you take stock of something,
you basically assess the current situation. So you might say we need to take stock of
our finances. So you need to think about your current financial situation and then perhaps.
The recent past of it and then going into the near future as well. So the current situation including
the past and the present. So let me just write that out for you. Let's take stock or we need to,
we need to take stock of our financial situation.
As I said, I think the best replacement would be assess. When you assess something,
you think about the current situation. So assess, think about the current situation.
And in this case it's the current situation
of your financial situation. A little bit confusing, They're using situation twice.
So this visit is about taking stock of what we've done, so assessing what we've done,
where we are, and what we need to prioritize for the future.
So far, neither the White House nor the Prime Minister's Office have confirmed if there will
be any impromptu stomps during the trip. All right, let's take a look at neither.
Norm, I did create a separate video on neither nor because I hear a lot
of mistakes with it. So I'll put the link to that video in the comment,
but just know that neither is used when it's negative, so it's saying not the White House.
And not the Prime Minister. So it's negative for the White House and it's also negative for the
Prime Minister. That's what I'll say now, just because I do already have that full lesson on
it. So I will just say link to lesson in the video description on neither nor. It's a great video.
And I highly suggest you watch it.
Okay, so you can watch that when you have time. It's a pretty short video as well.
Just trying to get this. Let me just put this on a separate line for you neither. Whoopsie,
neither nor. Oh okay, got it. Ooh.
So far, neither the White House nor the Prime Minister's Office have confirmed if there will
be any impromptu stops. What was an impromptu stop? It's an unplanned stop. Unplanned,
it seems.
Like it would be obvious that there would be unplanned stops. For example,
if you and I were going on a vacation, we wouldn't plan out every single place, including cafes,
restaurants, stores in advance and have that on an itinerary, right? If we felt like going to a cafe,
we would go to a cafe. Obviously that's not how it works for the president for security reasons.
Everything has to be very planned out so security can be present. So that's why an impromptu stop
is unlikely. But it did happen when Barack Obama, former President Barack Obama visited
Ottawa many years ago, and that's what this picture represents. I'll continue reading this.
So it hasn't been confirmed if there will be any impromptu, unplanned,
impromptu stops during the trip. Meaning we'll have to wait and see whether there
will be another Obama cookie moment. If you come to Ottawa as a tourist, you will see this Obama
cookie. It's very popular for tourists and it's because Obama visited Canada.
In Ottawa, where I live, the capital remember in 2009, and he had an impromptu stop,
an unplanned stop, So he went to our tourist area, which is called the Byword Market. That's
just an area of the city in our historic downtown where the tourists generally go.
And he went to a bakery and he bought a cookie from that bakery. Remember,
this happened in 2009. Today, if you go into that bakery,
there are pictures of Obama everywhere, Like this picture is from the bakery.
And this is a television. What I'm pointing out with my mouse is a television. And it
plays over and over again. Barack Obama's trip in Canada from 2009 is pretty funny because
even now it's a big tourist attraction in Ottawa to come see this Obama cookie.
So if Biden makes an impromptu stop, maybe we'll have a Biden cookie in Ottawa as well,
or something like that. OK, we'll have to wait and see if there'll be another
Obama cookie moment when then U.S. President Barack Obama popped into a
bakery in the Byword Market during his 2009 trip. I like this phrasal verb to pop into.
When you pop into a store, a cafe, a bakery, in Obama's case, it means you just enter quickly. So
you just go in, you get your cookie and you leave. So most likely you're not going to stay for two
hours and have lunch with a friend, You're just going to get something and leave. So if you're
with your husband or wife or a friend, you might say.
Is it OK if we pop into this store I need to buy and then you can just
tell whatever you want to buy? OK, Now when you say pop into your friend, your husband,
your wife, they understand that is going to be quick. So even if you're on a schedule,
they know OK, it's not going to take a long time.
So if someone asked you like, oh, did you visit the museum when you were in Ottawa? You might say
we popped in, we popped in, which means you didn't spend a very long time. So this is the same as
saying visited quickly. We popped in, we just took a few pictures, looked around, but we had another.
Appointment to get to. We just popped in, so we use this a lot when you're going to stores. Or you
might go pop into a friend's house, which means you visit that friend for a brief period of time.
So my friend popped in on.
Over the weekend. Just sometime over the weekend. Oh, my friend popped in over the weekend,
so she visited me quickly. That's what it implies. And that's the end of the article.
So now I'll read the article from start to finish so you can focus on my pronunciation.
U.S. President Joe Biden touches down in Ottawa.
U.S. President Joe Biden arrived Thursday evening in Ottawa for a whirlwind 27
hour visit expected to focus on both the friendly and thorny aspects of the Canada
US relationship, including protectionism and migration on both sides of the border.
Is quite a packed schedule for a short trip, said White House National Security Council
spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday. This is a meaningful visit. Canada is one of the United
States closest allies and friends and has been now for more than 150 years. This will
be the first true in person bilateral meeting between the two leaders in Canada since 2009.
The first year of Biden's term focused on rebuilding Canada US relations. Following
Trump's divisive term in office, the 2nd focused on meeting obligations,
including prioritizing orderly and safe migration through regular pathways, Kirby said.
Now heading into the third, this visit is about taking stock of what we've done,
where we are, and what we need to prioritize for the future.
So far, neither the White House nor the Prime Minister's office have confirmed
if there will be any impromptu stops during the trip, meaning we'll have to wait and see
whether there will be another Obama cookie moment when the US President Barack Obama,
popped into a bakery in the Byward Market during his 2009 trip.
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