WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:32.359 Thank you for listening to Depiction's Media Radio. Welcome to Policy Rights to show 2 00:00:32.560 --> 00:01:04.599 about government policy and human rights. All right, everybody, welcome back to 3 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.200 policy and rights here in Depictions Media Radio. I'm your host, Michael Clogs. 4 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.760 UM. We're gonna hear some comments about the Alberta election, Uh Daniel 5 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:22.400 Smith. It came out to be the victor. UM. The interesting part 6 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:27.120 about this, as much as we we broadcast please go vote, get your 7 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:32.120 voice heard, and it's one of the best ways if we want to see 8 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:38.560 change in our world is to go vote. The election UM had one of 9 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:49.599 the lowest turnouts for Alberta UM in in well in Alberta history, UM that 10 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:59.400 did. The voter turnout was was extremely low and UM Daniel Smith did come 11 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:06.000 out to be the victor over UM of course not only with the NDP and 12 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:12.639 she gets to continue her what it is is she was working on for her 13 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:21.199 vision of what Alberta should look like. And congratulations to her on that, 14 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.719 you know, coming up with the victory. But we do need to need 15 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.280 to stress that yes, we do actually need to go vote. We can't 16 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:38.439 be disheartened by we hear things about the interference foreign interference into the electoral system. 17 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:44.680 We can't be disheartened by that. And we're actually going to hear jack 18 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:51.000 Mee saying makes some comments about that and that he is continuing to call for 19 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:58.599 a public inquiry into the public interference and what China has done and what what 20 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:07.520 the ceases records and information actually has inside of it, so that they can 21 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:12.840 figure out how to improve the system and make the system better. There were 22 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:21.919 some comments and questions about would the trigger a confidence vote and which case everybody 23 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:28.719 goes into electrotion mode, and Jackie See was adamant to death's not the ultimate 24 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:35.039 goal of what he wants. What he wants is to see the truth come 25 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:44.479 out about what is happening inside of the electoral process. So and we're also 26 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:51.400 going to hear, of course Alberta is still in a wildfire emergency, which 27 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:58.199 well Daniel Smith gets to keep going with that, which is a continued uphill 28 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:04.039 battle. And now Nova Scotia is seeing um the same thing with far as 29 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:14.919 fires happening. We're going to also hear comments about the opiate crisis, as 30 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:24.759 Elizabeth May is joined by others uh speaking for safe supply and to treat addiction 31 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:31.240 as a mental illness and not to treat it um just on a criminal basis, 32 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:40.959 to maybe decriminalize drugs so that people can get the help they need with 33 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:51.560 mental illness and addiction. Along with that, we're we're also going to hear 34 00:04:53.199 --> 00:05:02.399 some other comments about other issues that happen across Canada as well. We listen 35 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:10.680 to UM all of the segments today, So why don't we start off with 36 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:30.000 Justin Trudeau as he is going to make the first segment in ground Jeri Michelle 37 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:39.720 Coti, the Parsidan and the Mellouisandi deceny in the ferry in the play Masuvier 38 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:51.160 la touche spirit so rolling crazy on the premier film U some some rest committed 39 00:05:51.199 --> 00:06:05.439 on um oral parkams uh ka uh sit there artist a universe culture, really 40 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:16.360 mediatic artistic, Qua was the players um. Michelle Couti was an extraordinary actor 41 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:24.720 who um moved us all as Quebecers in so many different ways and this one 42 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:30.399 that those who don't know who she he is would be good to view some 43 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:36.399 of his films. I think his abilities as an actor and comedian were legendary. 44 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:54.399 Sing was the special actor to sit down. May they are natist like 45 00:06:54.480 --> 00:07:01.600 Kwaiba means she told her what film crazy, but who we accept la chance 46 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:20.199 and immediately Okay, back about the Alberta election, just your general thoughts. 47 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:24.879 My thoughts are that all Burtons are going to make their choice today. We'll 48 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.279 see who the premier is tonight, and I encourage everybody to go out and 49 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:45.319 vote. Jean, I want to ask you about what's what's your react? 50 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:47.800 But we have to stay vigilant in our own country, but we also have 51 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.560 to raise our voices internationally when we see our rights taken away from people and 52 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.040 rights that were hard fought being scaled back. Look, we don't have to 53 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.959 go very far in our own country to look at people that are trying to 54 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.360 make sure that pride flags aren't flown. You don't have to go further than 55 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:07.439 Oxford County to see that. Chill rack BC has had issues with trans kids 56 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.800 in school, and now we see even in Atlantic provinces the rights of kids 57 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.879 to be who they are in school trying to be taken away. So we 58 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.439 have to remain visioned on lgbtq I S plus rights here in Canada and we 59 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.199 have to stick up for them around the world as well. A twelve how 60 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.439 do you envision the federal dopment four poment. Whoever is elected, an accident 61 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.800 comes to you know, the challenge is related to climate change or pathic emissions. 62 00:08:31.200 --> 00:08:35.240 Sure, as Minister wrote of my job has been since day one to 63 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.720 find common ground and to work on files together. And whether it's been a 64 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.120 Premier not L's group in my first mandate or whether it was Premier Kenny's group 65 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.240 in the second mandate, the job is to represent all all Burtons. And 66 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.720 I can tell you when I'm on the doors talking with people, what they 67 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.600 tell us is we elect municipal, provincial and federal reps to get the work 68 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.240 done. We expect you all to work together and that's that will be my 69 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.279 approach with whoever the new cabinet and MLAs are after today's election. Thanks for 70 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:09.240 well. I mean, this isn't new money. It was announced in the 71 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.399 budget and you know, I go back. You know, the Prime Minister 72 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.679 acknowledged what was happening around violence against Indigenous women and girls as a genocide, 73 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.000 yet they're not investing adequately in it. And I agree with the chair of 74 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:28.480 the Family and Survivor's Circle, the National Family and Survivor's Circle, that it 75 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.879 needs to be accountable. It needs to be you know, spent in a 76 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.840 timely way, and it needs to be measurable goals. You know, the 77 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:41.799 federal government has a habit of making these big announcements and then not spending the 78 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:46.240 money. So we know about the money in the twenty twenty three budget. 79 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.279 We know they need to invest more if they're serious about addressing this ongoing genocide, 80 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.799 and they need to get that money out the door, unlike pass Moneys 81 00:09:54.840 --> 00:10:00.399 that they've allocated, including from twenty and we're still waiting for them to spend 82 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:13.200 it. Pretty things are they're putting well? I mean absolutely we need to 83 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:18.480 look after everybody's health and wellbeing. Uh and certainly the well being of men 84 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:24.919 and boys. I absolutely think that's necessary. You know, Indigenous women and 85 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:31.320 girls and diverse gendered folks are not perpetrating violence on ourselves. Often it's happening 86 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.200 at the hands of men and boys. So we need to make sure that 87 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.600 we look after men and boys as well. We need to make sure that 88 00:10:37.759 --> 00:11:01.399 they're healthy. So I do support that gender bouncer you want. Good morning, 89 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.799 Thank you for coming to this press conference, which is fully nonpartisan and 90 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.840 focused on the crisis the opioid crisis, the importance of harm reduction, and 91 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:18.679 policies that focus on safe supply and decriminalization. I'm joined today and we're going 92 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.200 to have a speaking order as follows. I'm really honored to be joined by 93 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:30.080 a number of the real experts through tragedy in this issue with Mom's Stop the 94 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.120 Harm. First, we're going to hear from Adam Vancouver Don, Parliamentary Secretary 95 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.440 to Health that I'm going to invite Leslie McBain for mom Stop the Harm, 96 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:46.759 and Ruth Fox and Christine Taylor to take the stage. Followed Up, the 97 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.480 closing words will be from Mike Morris MP for Kitchener's Center. So I'll just 98 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:56.279 turn the microphone over to Adam. Thank you, MP. May. It's 99 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.120 a real pleasure to be here in Elizabeth. Each other by our first names, 100 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.799 because we're friends and colleagues. And the reason that we're here today is 101 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.679 because members of the Liberal Party, the Green Party, the NDP, and 102 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:16.480 the Blackibiqua are have become increasingly horrified by the really fact free rhetoric coming from 103 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.960 the Conservative Party as it relates to safe supply and harm reduction in this country. 104 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.360 We have to acknowledge that we have an opioid crisis, in a poisoned 105 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.799 drug crisis in Canada, and the type of rhetoric that's coming from Pierre Polyev 106 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:35.600 and the Conservatives right now is doing more harm. It's spreading mistruth, it's 107 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.120 creating more stigma, and it's not doing anything to help people who actually need 108 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.200 it. So I'm really glad to be joined today by Leslie, Christine and 109 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:48.200 Ruth, who have just met, but who are familiar to everybody who really 110 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.919 knows what they're talking about when it comes to the opioid crisis in Canada. 111 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.840 I want to acknowledge that I'm a politician like Pierre Polyev and Elizabeth May and 112 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:03.000 Mike Morris. I'm a politician, not an expert in the opioid crisis or 113 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.679 really very many other things. That's why we rely on experts. We rely 114 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:13.559 on experts for that academic approach for an evidence based solution. And since Canada 115 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:20.399 at large has been employing a safe supply and harm reduction approach and an evidence 116 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:26.399 based approach to solving for the epioid opioid epidemic, there have been tens of 117 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:31.000 thousands of overdose reversals. Lives are being saved. This is not work that's 118 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:37.120 complete, it's ongoing. But the type of fact free nonsense that's been coming 119 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:41.279 out of the conservative side on this lately is harmful and it needs to stop. 120 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:46.080 So with that I pass it over moms to stop the harm. Whether 121 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.360 that's Ruth, Christine or Leslie, I'm not sure, but I'd just like 122 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.519 to thank you for your time today, for coming here to Ottawa, and 123 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:01.159 for sharing your lived and living experience which is informing our government's action on how 124 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.679 we support people through the toughest times of their life. Thank you very much 125 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:13.759 for being here. Thanks. We are reluctant experts. We never wanted to 126 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.000 be standing here, and we're standing here because our children have died from drug 127 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:26.000 harms. We are advocates for the implementation right now other things as well, 128 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:31.799 but the implementation of a safe, regulated, legal supply of drugs for people 129 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:37.559 who need them. We really want to implore the public to understand what that 130 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.559 means. It doesn't mean standing on the corner and giving out drugs to kids, 131 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.080 which has been sort of intimated by the Conservatives. We want to set 132 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:54.320 the records straight. This project will be very highly regulated, highly documented. 133 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:00.159 The research will be the research is there, the statistics will be there as 134 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:05.879 well. We know that the only way to stop or reduce the horrendous number 135 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:13.200 of deaths is to implement a regulated supply. I mean people who are addicted 136 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:18.200 tobacco, people who are addicted to alcohol have a safe, regulated supply. 137 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.559 They can use it unsafely, but it's up to them. People who are 138 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:28.200 addicted, and I'm hoping the public understands addiction as we go along, need 139 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.879 to have the drug they're addicted or dependent on, and they have to go 140 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:41.039 out into the black market, which is run by the by gangs organized trying. 141 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:46.440 So we are making people who are addicted and dependent go out into that 142 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:52.639 market to get the medicine they need. This isn't how we work in Canada. 143 00:15:52.399 --> 00:16:00.240 We help people who have health conditions. We actually can easily compare what 144 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:06.120 happens with people who are addicted and how they're treated with people who have heart 145 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:11.120 attacks and how they're treated. They are followed for life. They have the 146 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.559 best medicines in the world, they have the best doctors in the world here 147 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.679 in Canada, but not so with people who are addicted. So we are 148 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.799 working so hard to show that you know, drug use is a problem, 149 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:29.559 but it shouldn't be deadly. It should be treated. When people come into 150 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.960 the er, they should be treated with respect. They should be treated with 151 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.200 ongoing care and support. They shouldn't be just turfed out the door, which 152 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:42.200 happens everywhere across the land. Our kids died because they didn't have what we 153 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:48.559 are advocating for. They didn't have services, they didn't have harm reduction. 154 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.159 They didn't they weren't able to get into treatment when they needed it. The 155 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:59.360 Conservatives say that they're building, They're going to build this fantastic amount of treatment 156 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.720 beds and evidence based and all of those things, and we agree we need 157 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:11.119 those, but dead people can't access those services. So we're here to tell 158 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:17.480 to tell the world, to tell the world stop the deaths. And we 159 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:19.400 will say that every single day for the rest of our lives, because that's 160 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.960 where our grief will be for the rest of our lives. We're in grief 161 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:29.039 because we lost our kids. Thanks, And I would like to hand it 162 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:37.039 over to Christine Naylor valuation exactly. So I've prepared something to say because I'm 163 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.559 not as good as Leslie and when I'm nervous, so i just want to 164 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:48.960 say I'm here in Ottawa today to stand united with advocates from across our province 165 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:53.440 in country, to advocate in support of safe supply and other harm reduction measures 166 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.480 that meet people where they are and help to keep them alive. Our country 167 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:02.279 needs to move forward, not backwards when it comes to measures to address the 168 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:07.319 toxic drug supply. Measures taken to date to address the toxic crisis have failed 169 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.880 the results of these failures are heartbreaking in the extreme. Since two thousand and 170 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:17.119 sixteen, over thirty five thousand Canadians have lost their lives due to our country's 171 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:21.480 failed drug policies. My son was one of them. Thirty five thousand. 172 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:26.359 This is a number that is staggering and it should outrage Canadians, and yet 173 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.920 it doesn't and why because of stigma. Every drug death is a policy failure, 174 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:38.039 and it's a policy choice. Every life loss mattered, Every loss affects 175 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.279 a family, and it leaves ripples of grief, trauma, and heartbreak in 176 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:48.519 communities across our country. In November of two thousand and twenty, our worst 177 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.920 nightmare came true. We lost our son Ryan to a toxic drug poisoning. 178 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:56.079 As much as I wanted it not to be real, to wake up and 179 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.640 it all to be a bad dream. It wasn't. On Ryan's thirty fifth 180 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:04.000 birthday, instead of celebrating with our son, we buried him. Ryan lived 181 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:10.039 with concurrent disorders, having both bipolar disorder and substance use disorder. The last 182 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.599 eight years of his life were struggle. It didn't have to be that way, 183 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:17.799 and I truly believe if society support it instead of shame those living with 184 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:22.359 mental illness and substance use issues, Ryan's story would have had a different ending. 185 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.039 Ryan is dead because he was denied a safe supply of what for him 186 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.680 was his medicine. It was a drug he found that helped him to cope 187 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:37.640 with his bipolar disorder. Since Ryan's passing, my husband and I formed a 188 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.799 nonprofit organization in Ryan's memory and honor. Our mission is to advocate for and 189 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:48.359 support those living with mental illness and substance use issues and experiencing homelessness. Our 190 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.480 work brings us into contact with so many people in our community that are struggling 191 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.759 with substance use issues. We have needlessly lost so many members of our communities. 192 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:03.400 These deaths were preventable. Lose approximately one member of our community a week, 193 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.920 the toxic drug crisis continues to take a tool on our community and on 194 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.640 our country. As a co founder and director of Bryan's Hope and as an 195 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:17.200 advocate for Mom Stop the Harm, I vocally advocate for decriminalization, safe supply, 196 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:22.839 and other health based measures to support people living with substance use issues. 197 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:29.279 Public health experts, law enforcement, frontline workers, and people with lived and 198 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.680 living experience have long called for a shift in Canada's approach to substance use, 199 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:41.960 including decriminalization of simple, expungement of convictions, universal access to treatment and recovery 200 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:48.440 programs, but the access has to be voluntary force treatment we know does not 201 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:52.200 work. Yet, instead of moving forward in a more health and evidence based 202 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:59.279 approach this to address this public health emergency, the Conservatives are calling for measures 203 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.440 to reverse the small steps that we have taken and bring us back even further 204 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:08.920 backwards with our country's drug policy. This will have devastating effects and it will 205 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:15.720 cost countless lives. This is why advocates have come to Ottawa to stand unite 206 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:19.559 it at Parliament. The cost of us not standing up and speaking out is 207 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:25.839 too high. Together, we will change policy and stigma and save lives. 208 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:45.079 Thank you now, I know, but I had came good morning. I've 209 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:52.039 jotted down some words as well. In August twenty twenty, my world and 210 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:56.960 my heart were forever shattered when my youngest son, Trevor died from toxic jog 211 00:21:56.079 --> 00:22:00.799 poisoning. Trevor died in his home. He did not have a history of 212 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:06.720 sub problematic substance use. He was twenty five years old and had a full 213 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:11.160 and promising life ahead of him. I believe that if it wasn't for the 214 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:17.880 stigma associated with substance use, criminalization of people who use substances, and the 215 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.720 toxic supply, Trevor would be with us to day. As Trevor's death illustrates, 216 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:26.319 it is not only those who struggle with substance use disorder who are dying. 217 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:32.480 Any One who uses substances is at risk, and these are preventable deaths. 218 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:37.000 We have a policy and social framework which judges, shames, and punishes 219 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:42.119 people who use drugs. We need to criminalization of persons who use drugs and 220 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:48.200 access to regulated substances often called safe supply, within the framework of a compassionate 221 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:55.039 public health care approach. An approach that respects human rights meets people where they 222 00:22:55.160 --> 00:23:00.279 are and does not stigmatize or discriminate on any basis. If there was safe 223 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:06.480 supply, Trevor would be here today. Simply put, nobody has died from 224 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:11.319 safer supply, while the toxic drunk supply has killed almost thirty five thousand Canadians 225 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:17.119 since twenty sixteen and continues to take the lives of about twenty people across Canada 226 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.799 every day. Every day, twenty families are plunged into never ending grief. 227 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:38.000 Thank you, thank you all for coming. Really honored to be here with 228 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:45.079 Senator Kim Paid to my right and Victoria Person from a March of Dimes. 229 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:52.000 March of Dimes Canada to continue to call for the federal government to cut the 230 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:57.480 delays on C. Twenty two, to recognize that people with disabilities have been 231 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:03.880 waiting far to long, that people with disabilities continue to live in legislated poverty 232 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:10.079 across the country, that forty percent of people living in poverty across the country 233 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:15.799 are living with a disability, and they could be acting right now. We're 234 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:21.200 calling on them to first of all, prioritize C. Twenty two to bring 235 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:26.440 C twenty two. This is the Canada Disability Benefit Act that the Senate has 236 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:30.519 now moved ahead with to bring it back to the floor of the House of 237 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:34.200 Comments. In doing so, to ratify all the amendments from the Senate, 238 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:41.599 the good work that Senator Pate and her colleagues have done to improve the bill, 239 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:45.279 and while they're at it, to budget the benefit, because nothing changes 240 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:52.559 for people with disabilities until the Canada Disability Benefit is funded. There have been 241 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.559 five sitting days this week, five different opportunities. The federal government had to 242 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:03.440 reintroduce C twenty two National Accessibility Week. Is there a better time than that 243 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.799 to be reintroducing C twenty two. Disappointed they haven't yet, but we continue 244 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:15.200 to call on them without delay to move forward on reintroducing and giving C twenty 245 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:19.519 two the Canada Disability Benefit Act the priority it deserves and to act with the 246 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:26.519 urgency that the disability community continues to call for. I'll now turn to Senator 247 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:33.599 Kim Pate right, Thank you very much, mister Morris, and as member 248 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.960 of Parliament who has championed this, it's vitally important. The government took a 249 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.359 very clear position that they were going to support a disability benefit. They introduced 250 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:45.160 it. It was that's fantastic. The Minister has done incredible work. Has 251 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:52.319 the level of support from the community disability community that is unprecedented. The challenges 252 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.200 that the bill we got as a Senate was a framework, a piece of 253 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:02.359 framework legislation that was virtually empty and devoid of any substance. Now we think 254 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.519 that what we sent back is not the best it could be, but it 255 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:10.720 certainly would mean some things like adequacy, help prevent clawbacks, help ensure that 256 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:15.519 we actually see the benefits roll out more expeditiously, and that the consultations start 257 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:19.359 very quickly with disability groups. It's vitally important that this go ahead. My 258 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:26.319 understanding was this accessibility week, it would be considered in the House of Commons. 259 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:29.920 It's a huge disappointment to see it being delayed further by this government. 260 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.920 We worked very hard in the Senate to work through as many of the issues 261 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.200 as quickly as possible to get it back here so that there were at least 262 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.440 four sitting weeks in order for it to be considered. The time is running 263 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:48.319 out and disability people with disabilities can't wait. They've been waiting already several years 264 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:52.759 for this benefit since it was first announced, so the time to act is 265 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.599 now. I'm hoping that all of the members of Parliament here will take it 266 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:02.160 upon themselves to to support the Senate amendment and get this benefit rolling out as 267 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.759 quickly as possible to all people who deserve it and who need to be lifted 268 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:11.640 out of poverty. Not after our summer break, not you know, sometime, 269 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.200 you know, long into the future, but now, thank you, 270 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:22.640 thank you very much. March Times Canada is one of thirteen organizations that last 271 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.160 week sent a letter to House leaders from all parties about Bill C twenty two, 272 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:32.720 and our message was simple. We need to return this legislation to the 273 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.920 Order paper of the House of Commons and pass it without any further delay, 274 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.680 and it must receive royal assent before Parliament adjourns for the summer. The time 275 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:48.240 to act is now. Every day that we wait for this bill is a 276 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.839 day to people with disabilities in this country must continue to live in poverty. 277 00:27:52.559 --> 00:28:00.440 Every day we wait delays the critical next steps of this process. The community, 278 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:04.799 Canada's disability community is ready. We are ready to roll up our sleeves, 279 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:11.599 to lean in and to partner in the cocreation of the regulations that will 280 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.640 establish the key details of this benefit. We are ready to partner in the 281 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.839 implementation and roll out of the benefit so that it can reach as many people 282 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:26.359 with disabilities as possible and lift them out of poverty, restoring independence and dignity. 283 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.759 We are ready, but the next steps are up to this House and 284 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.200 so on behalf of people living with disabilities in every corner of this country. 285 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:40.359 We implore you, let's get this done. Thank you, Victoria, thank 286 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:45.119 you for those strong words. It's always so encouraging to see the disability community, 287 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:51.000 the disability community united from Disability without Poverty to March of Dimes to Inclusion 288 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:55.799 a Canada, every step of the way calling for this benefit to be prioritized 289 00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:02.319 with the urgency it does. It deserves. Thank you. Questions for Victoria's 290 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:06.559 letters to the House, the House and resolves. Have you any response to 291 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:12.559 the House line? Probably about a few weeks. We haven't had a formal 292 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:18.079 response to our letter. We're encouraged by some of what we're hearing while we're 293 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:21.759 here this week in Ottawa, but we really need to see the evidence of 294 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:25.759 this bill on the notice paper to feel confident that this is going to get 295 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:32.720 done in time for the adjournment. And I think the best evidence of the 296 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:36.440 answer to that question is whether C twenty two is on the order order paper, 297 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:40.039 and again it hasn't been reintroduced. As I said earlier, there were 298 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.920 five different opportunities this week to see it come up, and we need to 299 00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:51.640 continue to call for the governing party to put to put it up. Thank 300 00:29:51.680 --> 00:30:00.000 you, thank you, was you a good day. I'll have an opening 301 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.880 and then I'll be ready for your questions. I want to just start off 302 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.319 by acknowledging that there are so many forest fires across the country and our first 303 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:12.880 responders, firefighters are fighting hard. Communities are devastated, and I just want 304 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:18.079 to acknowledge the work that's being done and also the challenging times for a lot 305 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.480 of Canadians right now. I also want to talk about our opposition day motion. 306 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:27.880 In our motion, we are calling for the government to remove mister Johnston 307 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:33.799 as a special rappertur. We know that a lot of Canadians have left countries 308 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:41.640 where they were oppressed. They fled those countries and came to Canada seeking security, 309 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:47.440 seeking safety, seeking freedom. Sadly, that same oppressionists followed them to 310 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:52.200 Canada, and there are countless Canadians that have shared their stories about how they 311 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:57.039 are experiencing foreign interference in their lives, people of Iranian descent, Canadians that 312 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:03.160 have come from India, Canadians that have come from countries around the world have 313 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.960 continued to face foreign interference in their lives here in Canada, and we are 314 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.119 worried about that. We also know that there's clear allegations of foreign interference in 315 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.759 our electoral system, and that's something we take seriously. Unlike mister Trudeau, 316 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.839 who wants ignore this, sweep it on the rug, or unlike mister Paul 317 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.079 Yeah, for whom this is just a game, just playing a political game 318 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.039 here, New Democrats are taking it seriously. I'm going to be receiving the 319 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:33.119 special briefing, confidential information regarding what CSIS knows, because I think this is 320 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.480 serious, and that's why we're calling for mister Johnson this episide. We've been 321 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.119 very careful that from the beginning, we believe the public enquires right step, 322 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.480 but we've never and I don't attack mister Johnson personally, but I am concerned 323 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.960 that there is a very clear apprehension of bias that undermines the work that he 324 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.880 can do. And so at this point we are asking for mister Johnson to 325 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.200 be removed, and that's where our opposite emotion is about. In addition, 326 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.640 we are reiterating our call for a public inquiry because that is a process that 327 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:07.039 has enough rigor to restore Canadians confidence and electoral system. In addition to letting 328 00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:13.119 Canadians know that we take the serious allegations against Canadians in general and against our 329 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:20.000 parliament seriously, we also know that there is an apathy around voting. Less 330 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.920 and less Canadians are turning out to vote, and I think that foreign interference 331 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.559 and electoral system does nothing to assuage that apathy. In fact, it might 332 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.960 even contribute to it. So I really believe it is important to take this 333 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:37.519 seriously and that's why we're putting forward this motion today. Don't care free DP 334 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:47.720 who fast oppression pour v o Canada? Who is own own une boaqui EsPAS 335 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:58.039 de liberte may malorismon set memopres CC Canadian Eco Canada on a u den comte 336 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:08.720 de pusia on a balletuzia edistoire comment. 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Mister Johnson, No that me and let Dona Garante CHEMISTR 345 00:34:51.519 --> 00:35:06.400 Johnson opinion review the document a pragiview the documents secre opinion on public opinion said 346 00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:16.679 you see on a town book, said briefing that we I have. I 347 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:21.599 have not received the date yet. I've also written on when I work, 348 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.159 will I'll be briefed on that confidential information that ESUS has. I've also written 349 00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:30.199 a letter making it very clear that I want to have the same ability as 350 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.400 mister Johnson to provide my opinion on the evidence that I see. My opinion 351 00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:38.320 on a public inquiry my opinion on the government's actions, and we're waiting for 352 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.320 the response to that letter. In addition to the date of the briefing, 353 00:35:44.000 --> 00:36:07.480 but Alisia sect of public Johnston vook we are Publi car donald at Sililar plugs 354 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:16.559 over contown, don't up over continued pasque, although I've working on the continued 355 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:30.920 the monte on a vote Donald Champ, don't cover continued the montel who uk 356 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:52.960 see cela volunteer la champ seem partto public lat in lamon town d them, 357 00:36:54.159 --> 00:37:15.440 don't Premier continue forces government len on the si on swind and swine Dante sa 358 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:30.960 prima a p pomism, politic Ali, the cred condition, Petre and courage. 359 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:50.199 In elections Levy and in Menac notre system electoral pauv menclection metro public pasque 360 00:37:52.079 --> 00:38:05.159 democracy pet excuse the truvi in re election Messilla Percy angels do not a system 361 00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:27.719 electoral democracy. The garrantier come PLASTI I pushed the mister Poliev and I push 362 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:37.559 Politicoli. Then push series decracy serious serious as your threat then to ask Davy 363 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.159 Johnson to step down a special rapport. If you're not going to follow through 364 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:45.519 with with pulling the plug on the Confidence and Supply Agreement. What we're doing 365 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:50.239 is we're forcing this government with a vote. We're forcing Parliament to decide on 366 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.079 whether or not mister Johnson should continue. I think that's a serious question. 367 00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:58.800 Given the clear appearance of bias, we are putting before Canadians that it is 368 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:02.199 no longer useful to have mister Johnson in that position, given the clear appearance 369 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:06.320 of bidence, it's not going to restore confidence in electoral system. So we're 370 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:09.360 going to push for that. But I would question the approach of creating the 371 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:15.239 conditions for an election or triggering an election as not serious about protecting our democracy. 372 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.440 If we want to protect our democracy, I would think the approach should 373 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.679 be let's put in place new measures. What are the new steps to protect 374 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:24.480 against foreign inference? What are the new steps are going to be taken to 375 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.639 ensure that nomination meetings aren't being influenced, that MP's aren't being influenced. I 376 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:32.360 would like to see a series of steps being taken, and that to me 377 00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:37.679 would show some real seriousness about protecting our electoral system. If it's just about 378 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.320 a game to trigger an election, and then sure, mister Paulliams approaches tear 379 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:44.880 it all down and have an election. I actually don't think this is a 380 00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:46.559 game. I think this is serious. I want to make sure that there 381 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:52.280 are steps in place that their recommendation is being followed that actually reinforce our democracy 382 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.960 because for me, I don't want to see people believe in voting. I 383 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.480 want to see people confident in voting, and I want to restore Canadians confidence 384 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:00.679 in that. It's not about a game. For me, I want to 385 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.719 continue to fight for a public choir because it's the right thing to do to 386 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:07.239 give Canadians the answers to questions. But I don't see how it's logical if 387 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:10.679 the goal is to protector democracy to then trigger an election when we're worried about 388 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:22.840 foreign interference. That because Conference on the Confience spoken with johnstonding to see Bathing, 389 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:34.480 these maybe causes or used to come. The monkey excuse for see among 390 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:45.960 the Confiance is way of Shemans sitting sitting on a on a preset concept. 391 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:54.360 The appear confience on the processues don't gen attacked, but Monsieur Johnson and Jipanski 392 00:40:54.679 --> 00:41:05.159 please attacked. Miss mister Pliev films set an attack con institutions, mister Harper, 393 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:10.440 don't que lazy attacked, mister mister attack it to the system, attack 394 00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:27.760 attacking parta pur purche montasquet, mister Johnson, attack la pier a semment pre 395 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:52.320 the ABC chemist mister Johnson, ce clerk and paper continue among them, solid 396 00:41:52.639 --> 00:42:07.599 moment, don't let passage et mementos the chef, chef avoca principal mister Johnson, 397 00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:16.519 dont tulli ran quant, dont les the tuile document, the fa l 398 00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:30.119 bona l donne um, don chaque lexition, the donet partial lexion mont Claremont. 399 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:39.599 Impartiality is said, you haven't read the annex yet, so you can't 400 00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:44.559 really judge his work for yourself yet. So how can you then be so 401 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.559 sure that he must step aside? What we're our concern is about the appearance 402 00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:52.559 of bias, and the appearance of bias is very important in our system when 403 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.159 it comes to judges, when it comes to independent decision makers. It's really 404 00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:02.119 clear right now when looking at the work of the Johnson that the chief or 405 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:08.639 the principal lawyer, the lawyer that worked with mister Johnson in analyzing the documents 406 00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:14.239 and reviewing the evidence in meeting with people. This was the lawyer that met 407 00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.920 with me as well. It is very clear that her donation record since the 408 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.480 early two thousands to present has been to donate to the Liberal Party in every 409 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:29.159 electoral or election year. That is a clear appearance of bias that undermines the 410 00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.760 efforts of mister Johnson. And again I don't believe it was appropriate for mister 411 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:36.320 Pauli eff to be so personal an attacked mister Johnson, someone who's shown to 412 00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:39.199 be a credible person. But the appearance of bias is so strong at this 413 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:45.360 point that it really does undermine the efforts of restoring Canadians confidence. The appearance 414 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:47.320 is what I'm talking about, and the appearance is very important. It's the 415 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:54.559 appearance of these impartiality or partiality, biased or not biased that really impacts people's 416 00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:59.760 confidence in the decisions that are being taken. And with such a bias that 417 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.480 very obvious now, or the appearance of such a bias, it makes it 418 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:21.360 no longer tenable for mister Johnson to continue element shows public twenty soposit No confience 419 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:37.039 was everybody don't know the protogene of a system the democracy jun common election dawns 420 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:50.159 and context. Yeah, the enancetran cher conference not a system elector say come 421 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:58.519 on, lady, where's your levers? Shows to preach design alexio, don't 422 00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:08.920 you done? 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The d 442 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:17.360 de LeJean, Lion dan Lasance Medicament plus the protection plus the protection ramont montra 443 00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:23.000 Monti, the forces government, the ed de le Jean pasque gourmand let's say 444 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:42.119 se subcrimnister, the Libero me gerva YouTube, Jonny contra cont liv avoir, 445 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:53.519 entrepreneurs Enny Alp, the nasciance medico universal voire plus the protection protege not Viramon, 446 00:49:54.920 --> 00:50:04.880 don't we gerver On continued fast let Travis said, Sea, I want 447 00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:07.280 to add these ups. Do you worry about your own credibility? You keep 448 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:13.440 kind of threatening to act, but you're not really acting. At what points 449 00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:17.239 do you become like the boy who cried wolf. We are forcing this government 450 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:22.519 to deliver. There's not a threat here is there's a straight up agreement where 451 00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:27.199 we have forced this government to do a number of things dental care and we 452 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:29.239 want to make sure dental care is delivered by the end of this year. 453 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:34.679 I've spoken with seniors that are living in pain because they can't afford to get 454 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.239 their teeth fixed. In every province of this country, there are stories of 455 00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.360 seniors who cannot look after their teeth and are living in pain in their senior 456 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.280 years where they should be living with dignity in respect, those seniors are going 457 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:47.960 to be able to get their teeth looked after. If we look at what 458 00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:52.519 we're putting in place, it's going to help millions of Canadians and I want 459 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.239 to see that happen. That's what we're doing. We're forcing this government to 460 00:50:55.320 --> 00:51:00.239 deliver for Canadians. Were in fact, the government's supporting our demands. That's 461 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:02.800 what's happening here. We demanded that there's dental care. The government's supporting us. 462 00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:07.480 We forced them to put in place a legal framework for farmingcare. We're 463 00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:09.880 forcing them to support us. So that's what we're doing. And along the 464 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:14.280 way, we're also criticizing when they're not doing what's necessary, and we're calling 465 00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:16.079 them to account when they're not doing what they should be doing, and we're 466 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:20.519 using our power to do that. We're saying, mister Trudo, you're wrong 467 00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:22.920 not to declare a public inquiry. You can't just sweep this under the rug. 468 00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:28.199 Mister Johnson's work is no longer able to restore confidence because there's a clear 469 00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:31.599 appearance of bias. So we're critical of the government and we're delivering for Canadians. 470 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:37.039 That's what we're doing. Just on the albert Out election results, should 471 00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:42.320 you have intervened more or do you think your supply and confidence agreement with the 472 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:45.199 Prime minister was a bit of a poison pill for Alberton's and the nDEP brand. 473 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.000 But I think what would happened in Alberta. Of course, I'm disappointed 474 00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.559 that we didn't form a new Democrat government. I think that's that's bad for 475 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.960 Alberta, it's bad for Canada. Burns would have been better off with a 476 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.400 new Democrat government with a premier. Nay, they would have been better off. 477 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:05.119 But let's look at what happened here. This is a province where just 478 00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.400 a decade ago there was there was a single party system in Alberta. There 479 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:14.599 was a Conservative Party and that's it. That was the landscape of politics. 480 00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:19.079 Then there's three parties and in that three party split, New Democrats were able 481 00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:24.199 to win and then change the landscape of politics in Alberta in a phenomenal way. 482 00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:30.519 New Democrats won more seats the Conservatives law seats. They won seats in 483 00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:35.400 Calgary. People that have voted Conservative their entire lives and their families have voted 484 00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:40.239 Conservative their entire lives, voted New Democrat. What Premier, what miss Naughtley 485 00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:43.599 did, former premier, but Miss Notley, what she did and what the 486 00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:47.480 New Democrat Party did in Alberta is changed the landscape of politics and created a 487 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:53.559 two party system. Not too long ago, the entire number of opposition MP's 488 00:52:54.119 --> 00:53:00.719 was barely ten, and now the opposition in Alberta has firmly for two elections 489 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:06.079 in a row. A significant new Democrat presence. And uh, if you 490 00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:10.559 look at the results, thousands of votes separated new Democrats from actually forming government. 491 00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:15.239 Just just in the thousands of votes, that shows the force of new 492 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:21.159 Democrats, and it shows a seismic land landscape shift in politics at Alberta. 493 00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:24.679 And I want to acknowledge the hard work of all the new Democrats and Premier 494 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:38.360 Notaly or former Premier Notaly and hopefully future Premier Notaly in achieving that Acacia Japonel, 495 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:52.519 the Patine Democrat, the Madamila Montre EFFECTI sani to the la situation on 496 00:53:52.639 --> 00:54:05.400 Alberta Ya disan p prevois in until force not postion, come come madame not 497 00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:17.800 lect Alberta. Ruc Monterrey, the school politic on Alberta isonn Car monterreyski continue 498 00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:30.400 they nail dec Parazar mat is one le conservatorie, dont kere first just to 499 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:52.000 be suque madame not laager and Alberta and calot crazy okay um. Even listening 500 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:57.719 to depictions media radio and this has been powers and rights. If we want 501 00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:02.760 to see real change in our world, we have to speak up for it. 502 00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:08.039 We have to go vote for it. We have to make sure that 503 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:17.000 our opinion is heard and that we do all the things that ensure that we 504 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:22.320 get the world that we want. We can't just lay back in and wait 505 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:25.559 for it to happen to us. We have to be proactive and we have 506 00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:32.000 to go and get what we want. 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