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“I know Justin has to agree with what’s happened but we think that after that process has taken place Canada, the United States and the other countries that are here can establish the high standards agreement that protects labour, protects the environment, protects the kind of high value-added goods and services that we both excel in”, Obama said. Disputes between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors over Beijing’s claims to most of the South China Sea drew attention too.

“What’s APEC?” asks Winifredo Sumaya, a 60-year-old jobless man standing outside his shack in a Manila slum that sits on a mountain of trash just a few miles from the venue where global leaders held two days of meetings. The leaders of Russian Federation, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Peru are all in their early to mid-50s.

“We make no apologies for that but I also think that we have to recognize that if we want to preserve this planet for our kids and our grandkids, then we’re going to have to shift increasingly away from carbon-emitting energy sources”.

“We discussed the impact of China’s land reclamation and construction activities on regional stability”, Obama said in a press briefing after meeting with Aquino.

The 54-year-old president also told the story of his congratulatory phone call to Trudeau after his election win.

“It is a great pleasure to have our first formal sit-down between myself and Prime Minister Trudeau”, The President said, by way of introduction.

Standing alongside Obama at APEC, Trudeau retorted: “So young, and yet so cynical”. There’s an exodus of foreign leaders slated for those periods, which severely restricts use of the airspace by commercial planes.

Earlier in the day, that won him plaudits from U.S. President Barack Obama. Hundreds of flights have been canceled or delayed during APEC.

Obama departed from the Ninoy Aquino global Airport around 12:10 p.m.

Obama and President Benigno Aquino III met on the sidelines of the summit and agreed to take “bold steps” to ease tensions caused by China’s giant land reclamation efforts.

He says this year’s leaders’ retreat should be an incubator of ideas that will improve the region’s prospects for the future, leaving a “world that is better than what we found”.

The statement was a departure from convention for the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which normally focuses on trade and business issues.

On the refugee issue, Trudeau and Obama are on the same page on bringing Syrian refugees to their countries despite security concerns that have surfaced since the attacks in France last week that killed 129 people. The declaration noted the vital link between lack of economic opportunity and terrorism.

APEC has its detractors and anti-globalization protesters clashed with police near heavily guarded summit venues.