In Montreal, Obama defends his legacy as Trump aims to dismantle it in Washington.

In one of his first international speaking engagements since leaving office, former President Barack Obama laid out his defense of his administration’s goals, including reforming immigration policy, ending extreme poverty and curbing carbon emissions through the Paris climate agreement.

“When it comes to the threat of climate change, we have shown that environmental sustainability and economic progress are not contradictory, but rather are complementary,” Obama said in a speech to the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, disputing President Trump’s claim that the Paris Agreement would disadvantage the American economy. “In the United States, under my administration we doubled production of renewable energy at the same time as we saw a record duration of job creation.”

By Taylor Rogers.

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