North America

So what questions should a NED be asking internally and indeed externally when they meet somebody from FDI so that they go away satisfied that they're crisis ready? Can you be crisis ready? I'm not sure you can, but anyway, if you want a bit of a label.

Have we got a plan? When was it last exercised? What was the subject of that exercise? I was speaking to the chairman of the board of an airport in North America last week.

He was extremely proud that they run two big simulations every year, as you would hope and expect an airport to do.

But when we challenged him on what the subject matter was of these, he realised that they're only ever on health and safety events.

The other piece that you just mentioned, Anand, yeah, electorates are tough on development assistance.

I mean, for really most of Europe and North America, the very strong finding is always that the electorate massively overestimates the amount of money spent on development assistance.

and always finds it a waste.

But they always estimate, oh, this is 10% of the budget and it's tiny amounts.

We've created a brand new product line.

We're the market leader in CO2 systems in North America that three years ago had zero revenue.

It will be more than 300 this year, 300 million.

We're finishing the transition on a lot of footprint work.

You're here in Sioux Falls this week.

Is it Charlottesville, Knoxville, Drummondville? You're taking the North American path?

Yes, yes.

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The presence of God was so thick that for 16 days and nights, An estimated about 50,000, maybe 60,000 people in person got through that space.

The New York Times had called it the first great outpouring to hit the North American continent in the 21st century.

And Asbury's, you know, you can read about it.

You can sort of hear reports of what happened.

I found a guy who sells pawpaw and he has a pawpaw farm.

And if you're not familiar with pawpaws, pawpaws are the largest native fruit in North America.

It's in the Anona family.

It's related to soursops and sugar apples and such.

I've spoken to David on Asked Questions, and it just blows my mind away, the amount of stuff that

Yeah, they keep our ports running smoothly, and that provides a lot of goods and services to not just Canadians, but North American people all over the world.

So keep our ports moving

smoothly.