President Joe Biden speaks after holding a virtual meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb.

The president and the prime minister would like everyone to know that Canada and the U.S.

So after four years of trade wars, name-calling and international gossiping, President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weren’t going to let a global pandemic get in the way of a public display of mutual affection, even if it had to happen over video link.

The leaders spoke publicly before and after the confab — Biden speaking from the Roosevelt Room in the White House, Trudeau from his office on Parliament Hill.

The first virtual bilateral meeting at the White House yielded a road map for collaboration with a heavy focus on the environment.

There was no mention of former President Donald Trump directly, though Trudeau praised Biden for reasserting U.S.

was not going to announce a plan to share Covid-19 vaccines with its northern neighbor, or exempt it from Biden’s Buy American executive order, the application of which the White House is “still evaluating.” Administration officials promised nothing would change Biden’s position on the Keystone XL pipeline, either.

cooperation issued after the meeting, Biden and Trudeau pledged to update their 2030 carbon targets under the Paris Agreement by the time the U.S.

“We're facing tough times, there's no doubt,” Trudeau said