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Thank you for listening to Pictures Media
Radio. Welcome to Policy and Rights,

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the show about the government, Policy
and human rights. Welcome back to Policy

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and Write your in Depictions Media Radio. I'm your host Michael Cloggs. As

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we remember in that Justin Trudeau created
the sea Blan in order to help small

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businesses get around some of the troubles
that they were happening with the pandemic and

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to help keep those businesses afloat the
because of the seaver loan. Now some

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of those or the repayment of the
Sea balon, shall we say, that

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the small businesses are coming under fry
out fire again. They have to come

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up with with the entire portion of
the loan in order to avoid a high

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interest rate, and that that deadline
is approaching very fast. Different premiers and

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levels of governments have have been after
the federal government to find out what they

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will do to help small businesses again, as this deadline approaches, and it's

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not only gonna affect it's affecting UH
a lot of pop shops, it's also

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going to affect some charities and other
UH types of businesses that needed just to

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stay afloat during the pandemic. In
order d They just needed the cash in

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flux to keep afloat. So it
is a big question what is going to

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happen with the the Sea balloone re
payment and what the federal government is going

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to do to help small businesses and
charities that accepted this money to get around

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the high interest rates that is impending. Along with that some of the other

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things that have happened politically that we
may have heard that Donald Trump won the

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state of Iowa, but here's the
thing. Right after that, he may

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have won the state of Iowa,
but he is still facing charges and was

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back in court again right away after
winning the state of Iowa, and most

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recently that he has been asked by
the the judge in that same case to,

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shall we say politely, he was
told to shut up. There's a

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lot of questions around Donald Trump's performance
and some of the rhetoric that he is

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talking about. There have been social
media rumors that he's talking about some sort

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of a dome over the United States. Well, rather he's talking about a

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dome or not, isn't necessarily the
thing at hand. It is the isolationism

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that he's talking about. If the
United States is to isolate itself. What

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would happen to the American society if
they were to close off borders? That

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would also mean they were be closing
off their borders who imported goods and a

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lot of other things that happen.
So what would happen to business? What

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would happen to commerce? And we
had to ask ourselves a question of what

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would happen to the United States if
Donald Trump's elected and he is allowed to

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instill a policy of isolationism. So
really here also about Manitoba and Canada and

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a clean fuel program for aviation and
a few other things. So why don't

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we start with justin true John,
I guess the first question is where's everybody

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yesterday? Let's have a big guy
in questions before I started, I certainly

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want tomall business do what acknowledgement that
we are on traditional and seated territory of

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the realistic way, alongside of their
neighbors, the Bigma and the Pessicato Macati.

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Welcome everybody, it's a big day
for me personally. Welcome Prime Minister,

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Mayor Reardon, I see Mirrorfield,
Deputy Mayor Mackenzie, counselors. It's

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a huge day for us in this
city, and you know I am reflective.

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I started as an MP in twenty
fifteen because of this guy, because

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I believed in him. I believed
in a government that can do good things

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for people. I believe that government
with programs to help our most vulnerable is

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what we're there for. And I
wanted to be an advocate for this riding.

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We've delivered federally over one point three
billion dollars to this writing since twenty

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fifteen. We've transformed this writing and
I'm just so proud to be your Member

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of Parliament. So without further ado, I certainly want to welcome our Prime

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Minister. Welcome back to this beautiful
city, my beautiful riding, and over

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to you. Thank you Wayne for
your words, but thank you also for

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your extraordinary work for the people.
To thank John. It really is a

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pleasure to be able to do so
much with you here over the past many

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years. Donna, I'm Mary Ridan. Thank you so much for your welcome

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as well. Thank you for your
leadership as we've come together with this announcement

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today. I want to thank the
assembled Counselors, Mary Mayfield, other officials

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who are here. This is really
about all of us coming together to respond

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to the challenges that communities and individuals
are facing right across the country. I

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had the opportunity sit down with April, one of the residents of this building,

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just earlier, and she talked about
how challenging it was to find an

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affordable place to live, but also
how much over the past months she's been

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able to develop her independence, her
sense of building a strong future through having

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a safe and quite frankly excellent place
to live that is also affordable, because

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that really matters. And this building
we're in here today is a recipient of

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federal partnership through the Affordable Housing Fund
that delivered this excellent building, along with

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the work that the mayor and the
province did on this. Just last week,

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Wayne, you were here with the
mayor as well for a rapid Housing

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announcement over at Barrick's Green. That
is showing what we can do, especially

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to help the most vulnerable. We
know there's real challenges around homeless populations here

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in the city and across the country. We need to continue to step up

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on. Those are two different programs, and today we're here to announce a

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third program, a really big one, de La Constriction sing avec no vendu

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batsi delle raid. We're here today
for the twenty second Housing Accelerator Fund announcement.

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Across the country. We've worked very, very hard with the City of

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Saint John to come to an ambitious
proposal that's going to increase tensification, that's

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going to accelerate the processes in terms
of building more housing more quickly. They're

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looking at freeing up public land for
housing. They're looking at all the different

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things that are going to not just
make individual projects happen, but change the

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way all housing is built in this
community and by extension, right across the

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country. We signed the Housing Accelerator
Deals with cities who were willing to step

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up and be bold and ambitious about
meeting the growth that Canadians want and need,

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both in population and in our economy. And that's exactly why I'm so

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happy to be here. It's about
building a better country for everyone in which

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people can have that building block and
that pathway towards greater and greater success by

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having a secure and affordable place to
live. We know that people are worried

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that the promise of Canada doesn't hold
the way it used to, that promise

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that every generation should be able to
succeed even better than the one before because

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of the work that we've done over
generations and generations. People look at the

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challenges the world is facing right now
and the challenges we're facing in our communities

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right across the country, and they're
worried that maybe that idea and that promise

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of progress doesn't hold anymore. Well, that's why we're working so hard to

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secure that promise, to make the
kind of investments that are going to create

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an even better country and even better
opportunities for everyone. It's hard work,

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but the way it gets done is
by rolling up our sleeves and doing it

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together. And that's why I'm so
pleased to be here with the mayor and

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the municipality on this one. There's
other programs we've worked very closely with the

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province on, including, for example, accelerating the construction of apartment apartment buildings.

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We've removed the GST on the federal
side. We encourage New Brunswick to

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match what the other Atlantic provinces have
done and also remove the GST on the

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provincial side to make sure that the
mouth works to build more and more rental

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homes, me housing across across the
city, across the province and indeed across

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the country. Wit LAO and Canada
is the best country in the world.

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We're going to keep working together to
make it even better. Mer happy now

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that happy now to pass it over
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It's an honor to be here with
you today and with our MP waying long

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for this announcement. We're a small
city with a big heart and so we

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have to be bold and the Prime
Minister spoke about that today. I have

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a few notes I would like to
read because there are a lot of important

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details that the Housing Accelerator will help
us with. It's a pivotal moment for

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Saint John as we collaborate with the
federal government on the Housing Accelerator Fund.

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This partnership is more than just a
financial commitment. It's a promise to our

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residents. As a city. We're
dedicated to accelerating the development of affordable housing,

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ensuring every member of our community has
a place to call home, exactly

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what the Prime Minister said. This
initiative is more than just building houses.

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It's about building a future together.
We're laying the foundation for a stronger,

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more inclusive community where everyone has the
opportunity to thrive. Today's announcement of nine

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point one eight million in funding from
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation through the Housing

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Accelerator Fund means two hundred and eighty
five additional housing units will be created within

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our city over the next three years. It brings transformational and most importantly,

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systemic change at the municipal level that
will continue to move us forward in creating

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a community that is conducive to housing
and focuses on addressing the housing challenges face

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both here in Saint John and throughout
Canada. Saint John's Housing Accelerator Fund plan

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includes incentives to help increase construction of
apartments, townhouses, and secondary suites.

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It also includes incentives for the creation
of affordable units, public land, redeveloped

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amendments to the zoning by law to
permit additional density and key areas, introducing

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an electronic permitting system, and longer
term governance considerations. Today's announcement shows the

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Government of Canada recognizes that housing is
the cornerstone of healthy, vibrant and inclusive

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communities and the need for assisting municipalities
in addressing local housing challenges. On behalf

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of Saint Johns City Council and the
residence of Saint John. I thank you

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for supporting us today. Housing is
considered by your federal government as a right.

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So this this demonstrates that I guess
you point your money where your mouth

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is if you say housing is a
right. They come to the table with

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nine point one eight million dollars for
Saint John. It's great news. And

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the other thing I'll say is,
as a small city with a big heart,

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we have to be bold and we
want to grow. And I'm going

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to use your father's line line and
I'm going to say, just watch us.

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Thank you very much for being here. Thanks, thank you. Will

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now turn over for question Pally Kisson, all New Brunswickney's, Hi, good

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morning. My question has to do
with developers, with inflation and interest rates

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posing to be big challenges for developers
to get projects off the ground. Can

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you comment on what the federal government
is doing to help developers actually build apartment

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buildings. Actually, we've done a
couple of really big things. We announced

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an increase to the loan programs from
forty billion to sixty billion dollars to help

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with financing of construction of the rental
constructions. We've also in taking the GST

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off of new apartment building constructions.
It actually makes the math work that much

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better. We understand that the cost
of labor, the cost of resources and

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materials is going up with inflation.
We're working on bringing inflation down and it's

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steadily been coming down over the past
year. But we knew that we needed

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to be there to help make the
math work for developers to actually build build

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it. I know the city has
programs as well to support the construction of

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particularly affordable and middle income arrangement rental
housing. We're going to continue to be

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there to make sure that everyone is
working together to build the kind of future

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we need for Canada. Next question
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application was originally for fourteen point five
million. I heard, I think the

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mayor say about nine point eight million
is given. What went into determining how

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much each municipality received. We put
forward four billion dollars a couple of years

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ago for the express purpose of making
sure that cities were able to meet their

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own ambitions for growth, for opportunity
for their citizens. There is a lot

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of hard work and a lot of
partnership going into looking at what could actually

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be be done, what is the
right level of it. We came down

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with an agreement around nine point one
eight million dollars for the Housing Accelerator Fund,

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which we feel is the right level
to really enable Saint John to accelerate

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to get more homes built faster,
to get people into those homes in an

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affordable way, and we're really pleased
with that announcement. Next question, Good

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morning, I'm mean Stter. I
wanted to ask about the SIBA program.

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Of course, the deadline is coming
up tomorrow. What was the reasoning behind

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not extending that program and is there
any concerns about the impacts this could have

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on business as we are still trying
to recover from COVID. We have consistently

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been there for small businesses across this
country since we got elected. Since twenty

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fifteen, where we lowered small business
taxes, we've actually increased the capacity of

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small businesses to grow and still benefit
from small business taxes. And during COVID

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we knew we had to step up
right away to support small businesses so people

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keep their doors open and keep their
employees on the payroll. We stepped up

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with significant supports, including direct direct
help to Canadians, but also direct helped

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the small businesses with the SEABA loans. We understand that things, even as

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the economy has bounced back from COVID, continue to be checkedallenging, which is

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why we extended twice the repayment deadline
for the Sea balloons. But we are

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now far enough from the pandemic that
we do have to wrap up pandemic programs.

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Businesses have a number of different options
if they're facing challenges around the sea

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balloons. One is obviously, as
the majority of businesses have done, they

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can repay the Sea beloan by the
eighteenth and benefit from the forgiveness that comes

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with that. If they can't quite
make it by the eighteenth. There are

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plenty of financial institutions who are there
to give low cost loans to be able

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to benefit those businesses as they continue
to repay it over the coming years.

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And if they don't want to engage
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three years to repay the entire body
of the loan. So there are many

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different options out there, and as
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be there and look for ways to
encourage small businesses that are the backbone of

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our communities, the backbone of our
economy. We will continue to be there

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for them in many different ways.
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iersie. Next question. In Brunswi, recently, there's been a lot of

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rhetoric about gender affirming care, and
the premiere is making a lot of comments

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about potentially scaling that back. I'm
wondering if you're worried about that rhetoric and

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whether you're worried the province will scale
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is the best country in the world
in part because Canadians respect each other and

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in Canada people are free to be
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love. It's something that our party
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always stand to defend. Unfortunately,
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country and certain political parties try to
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We're a party that will always stand
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rights to be who they are,
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expect of their governments. We're a
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rights. Well, given the challenges
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not no surprise in New Brunswick,
would you then scale back health transfers as

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you did with abortion should something come
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the federal government's responsibility to ensure that
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right way. We've recently put on
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improve healthcare services for all Canadians.
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is a greater level of transparency and
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but two citizens about the results that
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from all of our tax dollars into
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have a right to expect top quality
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be active in make suring that people
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My question is about a Robert Mailman
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gentlemen who just were wrongfully convicted of
murder. Your Justice Minister had a part

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of that starting. There's been some
apologies offered, there has been some lukewarm

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response of a review, but there
hasn't been much said about compensation. What

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can you say about compensation for these
two gentlemen. Is it a priority?

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Keeping in mind that these are older
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terminal cancer, obviously we take this
situation extremely seriously. We're going through the

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appropriate steps right now. I'm not
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I can tell you that the Justice
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be We'll be looking at all all
different options. Last question, Hi,

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mister Prime Minister. I was wondering
regarding South Africa's case against Israel Real Canada

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by the findings of the ICG.
I was very very clear on this last

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week. I'm happy to repeat it. Canada has always supported the international rules

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based order and the structures around international
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of Justice. We have a direct
engagement in five different cases before the ICJ

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right now, because we believe in
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our support for the ICJ and its
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accept the premise of the case brought
forward by South Africa and we are watching

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carefully as all the steps unfold.
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ICJ finds that Israel did comit genocide. I'm not going to comment on what

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could be an eventual finding by a
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Rippocomonte su di par like there's just
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around what's going to happen with small
business. Let's talk about climate because right

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now North America is in the middle
of a cold snap and one of the

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hardest hit areas has been Alberta and
which they are issuing rolling blackouts, and

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Daniel Smith has issued statements thanking Alburtons
for their attention to lowering their their power,

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their power consumption and is it helping, and what what is happening with

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with the weather, what is happening
with the resilience to infant to infrastructure in

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our societies. That things aren't going
as well as we thought, especially with

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the winter cold snaps in our local
area, that they've had trouble keeping the

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roads open because of the amount of
snow that has been dumped, and that

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there have been issued warnings from the
government of British Columbia to question do you

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need to travel or can you can? Can whatever it is, wait until

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the roads are are completely clear and
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because of the cold. So a
lot of different things happening. Climate change

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isn't just about warming. It's about
the jet streams that actually help us help

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keep our climate in a certain direction
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on the same jet streams so that
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So UH Florida governor and a town
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a bit of a warning around UH
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and he's saying that UH that r
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lose and it isn't seeming that that
Donald Trump is is getting the warm reception

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that he thought he was gonna get
by running for president again. So people

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are are remembering what happened, UH
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and how the riots happened in Washington, DC and the Capitol building was stormed,

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and what part did he actually play
in that. So there's something too

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to think about with with that,
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r with the Republicans, and on
that front, the that there apparently is

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a impending UH federal government shut down
if some deadlines aren't met by this Friday,

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which means that a lot of government
employees will not get paid and the

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military along with that and some other
things. One of the bill being negotiated

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is aimed at sending aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan and the southern

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borders with Mexico, but efforts include
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particular has stalled progress for months.
So and why don't we hear what was

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said at a meeting around in Manitoba
around clean aviation fuel. Thank you so

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much for joining us. Pleasure to
be here. It's such a beautiful building.

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And a wonderful new addition to the
City of Winnipeg into the Airport region.

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Here. My name is Ben Carr. I'm the Member of Parliament for

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Winnipeg South Center. Before we begin
the formality of today's event, I'd like

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to acknowledge that we're gathered here on
Treaty one Territory, which is the traditional

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homelands of the Innitionabe Cree Og created
Dakota peoples, as well as the traditional

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homeland of the Red River may Tea. I want to also begin by thanking

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the staff at the Royal Aviation Museum
of Western Canada for having us here today.

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I'm looking forward to spending some time
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We've got a number of special guests
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My friend and colleague, Minister Jonathan
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and Natural Resources. Of course,
to my right, Premier wab Canoe of

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the Province of Manitoba. Also my
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Schmidt and Moses, who are here
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acknowledge the presence of the Mayor of
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Knox, as well as Deputy Rae
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Portige la Prairie, and to my
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Aser Sustainability Fuels Corporation, and Carl
Andry from Canada's Infrastructure Bank. So I

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would like to turn the microphone over
to Minister Wilkinson, who's going to kick

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us off with some information about why
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you sit ATESCD. I grew up
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a weather perspective to Winnipeg, and
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feeling to be back on the prairies. I would like to acknowledge all of

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the dignitaries local provincial business leaders and
an infrastructure bank, and certainly the new

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Premier of Manitoba, with whom I
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as a member of a progressive federal
government, As someone who worked very

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closely with former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romano, I certainly see a lot of common

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values and common interests on which we
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de cost and so did the productive
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a lot these days about the issue
of climate change. Climate change is altering

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our natural world in a myriad of
harmful ways. Here in Manitoba. This

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past summer saw some of the worst
hailstorms in the province's history, causing millions

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in property damage and decimating farmer's crops. Fact as you folks will know very

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well, a single hairstorm in August
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forty million dollars in ensurable losses.
We also saw across this country terrible season

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of forest fires. I represent a
riding in British Columbia, and I think

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many of you will have seen the
pictures from Colonna that showed the devastation that

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these these events are causing to many
many Canadians. While some politicians these days

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choose to deny, or deflect or
downplace such events, Canadians know the facts.

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Our planet is effectively burning up and
extreme weather is becoming more prevalent with

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each passing year, and climate change
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Throne speech underlined the fact that climate
change is one of the greatest challenges of

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our time, one that requires real
solutions. At the same time, climate

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change is also rapidly transforming the global
economy and global finance in ways that are

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creating economic opportunities for those who approach
the shift to a lower carbon world in

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a thoughtful, determined and strategic manner. The global energy transformation is both an

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environmental imperative to protect the planet for
future generations and an economic opportunity on the

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scale of the Industrial revolution, Set
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the global Top one hundred Clean tech
Companies reinformed that Canada is punching well above

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its weight and key aspects of the
rapidly emerging clean economy, with thirteen Canadian

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companies making this year's list, the
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here to tell you that for Canada
to seize the extraordinary economic opportunities that can

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be enabled through the transition to a
net zero economy, we must accept the

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scientific reality of climate change and ensure
that it informs and shapes Canada's economic strategy

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going forward. What Canada needs at
this moment in our history is a thoughtful

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and ambitious economic strategy that will create
wealth and good jobs in every province and

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territory in this country. Set in
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Since twenty fifteen, your federal government
has invested over two hundred billion dollars in

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the fight against climate change and in
accelerating the development of a prosperous green economy,

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including eighty six billion dollars in last
year's budget alone, and the world

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is taking notice. In just the
last three years, we have seen more

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than forty billion dollars invested in almost
one hundred clean growth projects, and we're

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seeing this economic progress from coast to
to coast. In Newfoundland, Bray of

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Fuels is converting its refinery to renewable
diesel. In Ontario, we are seeing

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massive investments in the entirety of the
electric vehicle value chain. In Alberta,

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DOO recently announced its decision to proceed
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chemical facility, the first net zero
petro chemical facility in the world. And

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here in Manitoba we are seeing the
success of new flyers, electric buses and

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increased activity relating to critical minerals des
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camprix le price l pelucion carbon.
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to make smart choices. We can
choose to lead by recognizing where the world

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is heading and aggressively pursuing major areas
of economic opportunity, or we can choose

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to bury our heads in the sand, pretend the world is not moving towards

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a cleaner, greener future, eroding
our long term competitiveness and our long term

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prosperity. I call the first choice
a green economic plan for the future,

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one that is thoughtful one that is
relevant, one that is strategic, and

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I call the second simply hoping for
the best, taking a reckless gamble with

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the future of the planet and with
Canada's current and future prosperity. This federal

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government has chosen the first path.
Unfortunately, there are other federal politicians in

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this country who are seemingly choosing the
second. In doing so, they are,

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as I say, taking a reckless
gamble with the future of the planet

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and with Canada's prosperity. They would
allow the planet to burn and the damage

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caused by climate change to accelerate.
They would ensure Canada fails to seize the

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significant opportunities presented by the global energy
transition, the billions of dollars in investments

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and the hundreds of thousands of well
paying jobs to countries that are more thoughtful

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and more strategic. The new government
in Manitoba, through its statements and its

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early actations, has demonstrated it intends
to lead in the fight against climate change

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and in seizing economic opportunities. Manitoba
has joined provinces including Nova Scotia, New

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Brunswick, Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador, Prince Edward Island at BC in committing

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to a net zero grid by twenty
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shares, and a goal that recognizes
that the future is electric and that meeting

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our climate targets and competing in a
rapidly decarbonizing global economy means strengthening our clean

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electricity advantage. In fact, we
are already making progress together in this space,

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with nearly five hundred million dollar federal
investment announced just a few weeks ago

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in hydro electric turbines and a new
transmission network strengthening Manitoba is already robust and

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almost entirely non emitting grid. Le
gun feder Elenubo Guvnment de Manitoba partage egelmint

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conviccient celemison placet in economy props enidois
affair biais then on geshmos significat if a

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patine active eve atucton. That is
why we recently announced, in why the

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Premier and I discussed this morning,
the Indigenous Loan Guarantee program that the federal

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government will soon be standing up.
And perhaps most importantly, this Manitoba government

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understands that a collaborative approach is more
productive than a combative one. My discussions

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with Minister Schmidt and Moses yesterday and
with the Premier today were indeed productive and

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collaborative, and in the spirit of
this collaborative approach, I am very pleased

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to announce that we are working together
on another investment in Manitoba's clean economy.

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Today, the federal government is announcing
that it will be investing six point two

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million dollars for A Zero's Sustainable Fuels
to conduct a front end engineering design study

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for the planned sustainable aviation fuel facility
near Portage Liprairie. This includes five million

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dollars from Natural Resources Canada My Department
and one point two million dollars from the

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Canada Infrastructure Bank. These funds will
complement the Government of Manitoba's nearly three million

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dollar investment in the project Lincete Lacion
de Caberan, a vision d'abres proposi parazeure

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produirey entviirent emiliare delitre de saff Chaconis
Prince Valmont, a pertier de Matier Premier

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Canadien Telcuil the Canoe La de Soja. It will create fifteen hundred construction jobs

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and approximately one hundred and fifty direct
permanent highly specialized jobs once in production,

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and its construction is projected to potentially
bring two billion dollars to Manitoba's economy.

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The establishment of a SAF facility would
be yet another significant gain for Portera's Li

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Prairie, which has seen strong investment
in business development and housing since twenty seventeen.

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Lincete lascient proposi parasiere devre permetre de
reduier les mission de sieux de d'n

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virent du vill cis milon de ton
suki akvore de plu de sanque sant vehicles

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as yours staff facility is what success
looks like in a rapidly decarbonizing global economy.

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Ladies and gentlemen, As I said
earlier, we have a choice,

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and I would suggest that thoughtful people
must conclude that we simply must choose to

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act thoughtfully, and indeed we must
choose to have the courage and the foresight

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to lead. Today is yet another
step along the path of climate and economic

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leadership, and I very much look
forward to taking further steps with our partners

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in the Manitoba government in the months
and years to come. Thanks very much,

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mister Wilkinson, and I just want
to take an opportunity before I invite

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the Premier up to speak, to
say that the working relationship between the provincial

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government in Manitoba is since their election
in October and the federal government has been

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outstanding. Every minister that has come
into town, every one of my colleagues,

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all of those that I've spoken to, including River Heights MLA Mike Morose

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who I met with yesterday, as
well as the Premier and ministers from across

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the cabinet, have enjoyed a genuine
relationship that is built on trust, It's

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built on mutual values, a progressive
vision for the Province of Manitoba and for

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Canada as a whole. We have
really enjoyed the last couple of months working

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together and I think today is another
example of a positive step forward. So

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with that, and with big thanks
and commending to the Premier for his leadership

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and that of his team, i'd
like to ask Premier Wab Canoe to come

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up and deliver remarks on the announcement
today. Thank you, wonderful thanks form

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here well, that's very kind in
p Car and of course Wilkinson, this

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is a very welcome announcement and we're
happy to be making an investment alongside your

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government, the folks at Azure and
the candidate Infrastructure Bank. I think it's

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pretty amazing to see the sort of
economic potential that's going to be unlocked here

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and then to Mayor Knox and to
the Deputy Reef here. You know,

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Portage is an important hub in Manitoba's
provincial framework and we really look forward to

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continuing to grow the economic pie for
your region and for the whole province.

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To my colleagues, Minister's Schmidt and
Moses, this is all part of the

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plan, isn't it right. Grow
the economy. Economic horse pulls a social

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cart. We'll be doing lots of
great healthcare and education announcements based on the

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economic development potential that we help to
realize. I'm very excited about the announcement

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that we're making here today because at
the end of the day, Manitoba is

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going to be a winner economically speeding
in a net zero future. Our province

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has made the investment over the past
five decades to have a low carbon electricity

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grid. We have a skilled workforce. We have from critical minerals through advanced

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manufacturers and ports to bring goods to
market. The entire supply chain for a

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net zero economy of the future.
And the best part about it is if

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there is a long tradition here of
putting blue collar Manitobins to work building these

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sorts of projects. And so whether
you're the finance person, the person putting

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the steel toson in minus fifty weather, or the person who's going to work

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inside the plant in the future,
there's a ton of economic potential that's going

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to be unlocked by furthering those investments
in a zero emissions future across Canada and

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here in Manitoba. When our team
was elected in the recent provincial election,

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there was a clear message sent by
Manitobans. Manitobans wanted a government that was

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going to bring people together, and
not only bring people together from different walks

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of life and different regions of the
province, but also just to have a

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government that was going to work together
with other governments. And so we've extended

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that hand offered a warm and hearty
handshake to municipal leaders, to indigenous leaders,

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and of course to the federal government, because at the end of the

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day, we're all working for you. And today's announcement done jointly with various

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levels of leadership is emblematic of that
and it's really important that we continue to

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deliver for you, the people of
Manitoba and for Canadians across this great country.

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And this investment today is a direct
result of that willingness to work together,

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the idea that we're going to be
able to connect the egg industry with

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sustainable aviation fuel opportunity, and that
there'll be a cyclical opportunity unity there as

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well to feedback into future egg development, to do regional development, workforce development.

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This is a really smart investment and
we're very very optimistic and excited.

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That's level joining with the announcement of
funding Minister Wilkinson have brought forward here today.

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We know that good jobs are on
the way for Manitoban's This is an

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investment in Manitoba, but I also
hope Manitoba can act as a showcase for

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the rest of the country. Sometimes
we're asking people and other jurisdictions when we

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talk about green jobs to engage in
an active imagination. But here in Manitoba,

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for the last fifty years, everyone
has known somebody who works in a

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green job. We know people who
work for Manitoba Hydro and the subcontractors there.

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So if we can show the rest
of the country that you can have

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good paying, middle class jobs,
blue collar work by investing in a climate

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friendly future, I think that's a
positive contribution to our overall Canada wide framework

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as well. So is with great
gratitude and humility that we're standing here with

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the Mini partners who are going to
bring this forward. Again. We're talking

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about the early stage work of what
is going to be a very very exciting

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opportunity that we hope comes online in
the very near future. So with a

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lot of humility and the willingness to
continue the collaboration, our team is very

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proud to stand here today and to
say that this investment in Azure and this

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investment in our province is a good
move for Manitobins me much, Elsie,

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thank you very much, Thanks very
much, Premier, And just to build

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on that, you know, every
announcement build Just a couple of weeks ago,

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we had Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence McCauley
here who made an announcement of upwards

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of ten million dollars toward investments in
the Canola industry here in Manitoban, as

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the Premier said, it's these investments
in biofuels like Canola that build on top

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of the type of research and innovation
that's taking place that's going to compound and

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continue to deliver results for Manitoban's both
economically as well as the contribution that we

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have to play to the fight against
the climate crisis. So I'd like to

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turn the microphone over now to a
Douglas Cole, who is going to provide

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remarks on behalf of his organization that's
really at the heart of this wonderful investment

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that's being made here today. Douglas, thank you, Good afternoon everyone.

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Minister will Wilkinson, Premier Canoe,
thank you very much for inviting az you're

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here today to be part of this
very exciting announcement. I'd like to start

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by recognizing the Indigenous people that have
walked on this land long before I was

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ever here. Azure has been engaging
with various indigenous groups across the country and

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the areas we're working in since the
inception of the company, and i'd like

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to acknowledge the support that we've received
from these indigenous groups regarding our intent to

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help construct to be a leader in
this energy transition and to construct the first

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facility in Canada that would be focused
on producing sustainable aviation fuel or saf or

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staff as we call it. We
had Azure or Honor to receive funding from

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the Clean Fuels Fund from the Government
of Manitoba and from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

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I believe the support Canada validates our
vision to create a mating Canada solution

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to reduce carbon emissions globally by utilizing
Canada's resources and skills. The funding received

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from Natural Resources Canada's Clean Fuel Fund, along with funding received from Manitoba Sustainable

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Agriculture Fund and from the Canada Infrastructure
Bank, means AZURE is now fully funded

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to complete the front end engineering design
or feed stage of this project, and

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that's a very important milestone in any
project development. With this funding, we

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anticipate completing the feed study for all
three of our Canadian sites by the end

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of this calendar year, with a
view to making a final investment decision in

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early twenty twenty five, which would
enable production in twenty twenty seven. Undertaking

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a project of this magnitude requires an
exceptionally broad set of skills, and ASER

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is partnered with industry leaders across the
value chain from technology, engineering, logistics,

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finance, just to name a few, to ensure that the resources needed

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are brought together to ensure a successful
project. And I'm very proud today to

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be now partnering with the Government of
Canada and with as we announced earlier,

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the Government of Manitoba and the Canada
Infrastructure Bank to advance this project. We

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believe at AZURE, we believe that
Canadian saf Facility is truly a win win

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win scenario for our aviation industry,
for agricultural industry and for all Canadians,

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as the saf produced from this facility
will be able to reduce carbon emissions by

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roughly eighty percent and as Minister Wilkinson
said that that's for our facility, that

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would be the equivalent of taking about
a half a million cars off the road

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every year, which quite a way
to look at it. This will create

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a long term stable market for Canada's
canola products, for Canola oil, and

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it reduces our reliance on volatile international
markets. And it will support our Canadian

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airline industry to doing their part to
reach Canada's goals and the world's climate goals.

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And these benefits, along with the
employment impact and the GDP impact that

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you referred to, I think are
truly a win for Canada. Minster Wilkinson,

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Premium Canoe. Mister Laundry, your
commitment and your support to these innovative

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initiatives really serves as a testament to
your shared vision for decarbonized Canada. These

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investments will enable us to lay the
groundwork for Canada to be a leader in

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the energy transition and create a transformative
change to our country. So on behalf

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of all of the team at AZURE. I'd like to thank Natural Resources Canada,

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the Province of Manitoba, and the
Canada Infrastructure Bank for partnering with us

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to support our vision. Thank you, Thanks very much, Douglas. So

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they're going to conclude the formal part
of the announcement here today. I do

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see we have some members of the
press that are present, so we will

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begin the media Q and a portion
if we just ask, we probably have

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time for a question and a follow
up question. So for those from the

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media here today, if you could
just step forward to the microphone, identify

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which outlet you're representing, please,
and who the question is directed to.

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Go first. There are Global News, and I have one question for the

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Premiere and one question for the Minister, and both are carbon tax related,

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So I don't know who like to
answer first. More provinces and territories keep

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saying they want to see the carbon
change and they frame it around the cost

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of living. It meets people feel
it's adding pressure to the cost of living.

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Is this assign Ottawa needs to adjust
plans before the next price increase in

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April? So I would say that
before I was Minister of Energy Natural Resources,

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I was the Minister of the Environment, and I'm quite familiar with how

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the carbon price works. The carbon
price is one tool in the context of

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a broad approach to addressing the climate
emergency. It is not the silver bullet.

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It is part of a broad range
of things, including regulatory tools,

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including investments, etc. The design
of the price on pollution was developed in

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such a way that we actually directly
addressed the issue of affordability through carbon rebates

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in provinces that use the federal system, and those rebates for eighty percent of

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Canadian families are more than what they
pay through direct and indirect costs. And

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in fact, there was a study
done recently by Trevor Toumbs at the University

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of Calgary and another one that was
referenced by a University of Regina economists that

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actually showed that the vast majority of
folks that live in those two provinces,

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which have been the most vocal on
this issue, get more money back.

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I think the most recent study shows
that ninety six percent of Canadians who actually

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earn less than I believe it's seventy
thousand dollars a year as a family income,

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get more money back. So getting
rid of the price on pollution actually

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would work in reverse order to affordability. It would actually make poorer people poorer

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because they receive more money than they
actually pay. It would also remove the

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incentive people have to address efficiency and
to actually reduce their carbon emissions. So

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the Government of Canada will continue to
communicate a number of those issues. We

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will continue to move forward with a
plan that actually does address affordability, but

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does so in a manner that also
helps us with the climate issue. I

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would also say to some provinces and
territories, if they actually have an interest

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in designing their own plan that would
reach the criteria that are established by the

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federal government, they are welcome to
do that and provinces like British Columbia have

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their own price on pollution that is
different than the federal governments. So does

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Quebec. So to a number of
other provinces. That's a cue. Sure.

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So you've mentioned before wanting Ottawa to
take another look at the carbon tax

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in Manitoba. Are you hoping to
see the federal backstop price change or some

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other provinces or do what some other
provinces have done and bring in an eventual

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pricing plan that incorporates the federal price
minimums. You know, today's announcement is

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about working together and we're talking about
cleaner aviation fuel. I hope that this

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investment moves forward in the way that
we're all envisioning it here, because when

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I think about leaving a safe,
clean and healthy environment for future generations of

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Manitobans, I want them to be
able to jump on the plane and go

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somewhere warm as part of that future. And so this investment today, I

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think is really pave in the way
for Manitoba to once again be a leader

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in a zero emissions net zero future. Whatever you want to call it,

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I call it a safe, clean, healthy environment for future generations. Our

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government as part of that idea of
working together, we're doing the things within

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our purview that we can to help
you. That's why on January first of

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this year, our team was very
proud to remove the fuel tax on gasoline

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and diesel. That helps you right
now. We know that people are struggling,

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and I was very proud on January
first to drive west with my family

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and we saw the price of gas
dropping in West Winnipeg, in Portage Lo

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Prairie, in Brandon, in Verden, and you know, really across the

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province. So there are things we
can do right now to help during this

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affordability challenge while also be inconsistent with
a long term fight against climate change.

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And I've been very clear, I
think that Manitoba has a very strong case

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to make that the carbon price could
be revisited here in our province. And

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we're going to be having those conversations
with the same sort of constructive, collaborative

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tone that we're bringing for this exciting
investment today, which is to say that

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good things happen for you, the
people of Manitoba and across Canada, when

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your leaders work together. So you
see, for Minister Wilkinson, will the

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greener Homes grant program still accept applications
past March. So the Greener Homes Program

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has been an enormously popular program.
It was initially set up to run for

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seven years, probably the first four
or so years of that for intake and

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then the rest of it to complete
all of the retrofits. It has been

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so popular that it has used up
a lot of the available funds earlier than

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we had anticipated. As is the
case with any budgetary allocation, as you

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use up your budgetary allocation, you
go back and have conversations within the government

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and with the Department of Finance about
how we actually address that going forward.

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Building efficiency is very important. The
Government of Canada recognizes that and certainly we

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are having those conversations as we speak
with the Department of Finance and we will

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have answers for you associated with the
next budget for the premiere. Different topic.

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Yeah, what is your concern that
former Cabinet Minister Cliff Cullen approached your

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transition team asking for a meeting between
Faise Osomgy and Minister Moses, Minister Schmidt.

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So without confirming the specifics of what
you're saying there, because I'm not

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sure all of that is the same
information that I have, So let's follow

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up offline information comes directly from your
office. But okay, yeah, so

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we can go back and forth on
the disputing of assertions if you like.

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But what I would say the overall
concern that we have is when you cast

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a vote in an election, the
most sacred of values is at play that

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we hold dear in our society,
that the people get to choose who they

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are going to have as a government. And in a case like this one

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where it appears at the caretaker Convention
was violated probably on a few occasions,

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it casts that value into doubt because
you have folks who are no longer carrying

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the mandate from the people of Manitoba
attempting to make decisions about the future of

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government policy. So that's a very
serious democratic ideal and public policy concern that

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needs to be addressed. And so
that's why members of our team have set

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those wheels in motion when it comes
to the former Minister of Finance and the

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former Deputy Premier and his conduct.
I think that the concern that our team

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has is that it appears as though
there is a pattern of behavior on the

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part of the outgoing government and if
nothing else, if there were so many

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people as part of that former government
pushing in a certain direction on a project

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that was supposed to be the subject
of an independent environmental approval process and decision

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01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:17.519
making process, it does bring into
question the validity of that approval process and

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so operationally in terms of when the
rubber meets the road, what does that

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mean for our administration. It means
that we're now taking the time to review

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the steps towards the potential approval of
that process. Our team is very committed

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to ensuring that critical minerals are developed
as an industry here in Manitoba. But

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the best way for us to capitalize
on that opportunity is to develop those critical

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minerals in the right way, which
means Manitoba wins as an economy when we

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can bring minerals to market and say
we're bringing these out of the ground with

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the highest environmental standards, highest labor
standards, best respect for human rights of

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any jurisdiction in the world, but
where certain actions appear to cast that value

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proposition into doubt, our team owes
it to the people of Manitoba to take

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the time to get it right,
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opportunity A azure A Calculusrema exita Canoe
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with the Winnipeg Free Press. I
also have a question for Premier, can

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you the CIBY Loans Forgivable portion deadline
is coming up, it's not not being

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pushed back, and wondering what do
you think about the sorry, So what

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do you think about that? And
is the government going to do anything for

679
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:16.159
businesses that can't or have not paid
back their sea balloons just yet. It's

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01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:19.279
a big challenge for a lot of
businesses out there. You know, we've

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heard the stories in our constituencies about
business owners in a very tough situation.

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That's why my colleagues, the other
premiers and I have gone on record and

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asking the federal government for some consideration
here. And so I understand that my

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colleague Minister of Finance, Adrian Salah, is also speaking to your organization today,

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and so in addition to the work
that we do at the premierial level,

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I know the finance ministers are engaging
on this as well, because small

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businesses have had it tough these past
few years. And while we want to

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01:09:56.279 --> 01:10:00.000
make the big bets on a clean
economy in the future, we also know

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that it's those small businesses, medium
sized businesses that are the job creators for

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01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:10.960
so many working Manitalent, I'm together
to find an opportunity to ensure that they're

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able to make it through, and
I think that's something that we'd all want

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01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:23.359
to work together on. Thank you
also have a question for mister Okay.

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So we're still having impending issues with
the Hamas and Israel as we know all

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the massive devastation and there is You're
going to hear a four minute statement from

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the United Nations about why the Gaza
stript is the most dangerous place on the

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planet to be a child. So
this is a report from the CNN about

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Israel and moss have agreed to deal
that agreed on a deal that we'll see

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medisine delivered to hostages in exchange for
delivery of humaniture and aid to Palestinian citizens.

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Guitars said on Tuesday, the relatives
of more than one hundred remaining hostages

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believed to be alive and Gaza are
calling for medicine to medications to be passed

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01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:42.640
on to their loved ones. The
Hostages and Missing Families Forum, an advocacy

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01:11:42.760 --> 01:11:49.119
group for victims' families, said each
new day in captivity in dangers the lives

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of their loved ones, and at
least one third Israeli hostages have chronic illnesses

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01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:09.199
require medications, the Forum said in
a report released last week, adding other

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others suffer from illness related to harsh
captivity captivity conditions. The medication aid leave

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01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:32.399
Dona today and GTAR, but it
is unclear how it will reach Gaza.

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So it is an area that of
course we've we've heard the the trials again

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and charges a bent against Israel on
genocide and what. Most of that is

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based on the fact that getting humanitarian
aid in to Gaza is difficult, if

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not nearly impossible, because of the
conditions that Israel has created, and that

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they there has to be a system. If they're creating safe zones, they

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have to ensure that that a few
things are possible such as sanitation, medication,

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food and water, which don't seem
to be possible in those safe zones

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in Gaza, so that people can
stay out of harm's way. And also

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the targeting and shelling of hospitals and
medical centers, which according to the rules

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of of war is not legal.
So genocide maybe maybe not. War crimes

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look more than likely if you're targeting
Savilian states like hospitals and medication centers,

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and you have seized the zones that
are not adequate to sustain human life.

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So let's listen to that fore minute
statement from the United Nations representative from UNICAF

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about why is so dangerous to be
a child in Gaza remains the most dangerous

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01:14:36.119 --> 01:14:41.000
place in the world to be a
child, and day after day that brutal

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reality is reinforced. Over the past
forty eight hours, the largest remaining fully

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01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:53.039
functional hospital in Gaza has been shelled
twice. Now, that Hospital Al Nassa

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01:14:53.119 --> 01:14:56.600
in carn Unis was a hospital I
was at on a daily basis. It

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not only shelters large numbers of children
who have brutal wounds of war, but

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it also shelters hundreds and hundreds of
women and children from across the Gaza strip

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who are simply seeking safety. Over
the weekend, UNICEF had shared the story

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of a thirteen year old girl called
Dina. Now. When Dina's house in

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carn Unice was completely destroyed, her
mother and her father and her two brothers

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were killed. Dina survived, but
she was badly injured and had her leg

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01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:30.039
amputated. Somehow, Dina had not
lost hope. She told us about her

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dreams about being a lawyer. Her
quote was, I feel injustice. When

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I grew up, I'll become a
lawyer so I can enjoy my rights and

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the rights of all children. Dina
was one of those killed in the shelling

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of Nasa Hospital on Sunday, the
day after she shared her story of hope.

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So where do children and families go. They're not safe in hospitals,

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they're not safe in shelters, and
they're certainly not safe in so called safe

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01:15:57.079 --> 01:16:00.239
zones. So let me just spend
a minute explaining why these safe zones are

739
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anything but Parties to the conflict have
an obligation to take all feasible precautions to

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protect the civilian population. In this
case, one of those precautions they've chosen

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to take is evacuation or moving to
so called safe zones. Now, as

742
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the United Nations said a month ago, these zones cannot be humanitarian when they're

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unilaterally declared. In addition, under
international law, when you evacuate people to

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a place, you must have sufficient
resources for survival, medical facilities, food,

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and water. Sounds very obvious.
We have not even heard lip service

746
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paid to medical facilities, food and
water. So that is that the so

747
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called safe zones are only safe when
they're not only free from bombardment, but

748
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when those conditions food, water,
medicine and shelter are met. However,

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under the current besiege conditions, adequate
supplies for such zones are impossible. This

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for myself. They are tiny patches
of barren land or their street corners in

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01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:09.720
neighborhoods, or their half built buildings
with no water, no facilities, no

752
01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:15.840
shelter from the cold and now the
rain, and certainly no sanitation. Currently

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01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.680
in Gaza there is a toilet for
around every seven hundred people. You can

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01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:24.359
imagine the three or four hours that
means for an adolescent girl one toilet for

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01:17:24.399 --> 01:17:29.520
seven hundred people. Relocate people from
these shelters to the so called safe zones,

756
01:17:29.880 --> 01:17:33.159
and we're talking about tens of thousands
of people resorting to buckets or open

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01:17:33.239 --> 01:17:39.960
defecation, and so without water,
without sanitation nor shelter, these so called

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safe zones have become zones of disease. Diarrhea cases in children are now above

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01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:50.960
one hundred thousand, acute respiratory illness
in civilians above one hundred and fifty thousand.

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01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:58.359
Both these numbers will be gross undercounts
of the woeful reality. Malnutrition is

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01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:02.600
also soaring in Garza's children. Therefore, things like diarrheal diseases are now deadly.

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01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:09.600
Consider this, More than one hundred
and thirty thousand of Garza's most vulnerable

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01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:12.960
children, that is, newborns up
to two years of age, are not

764
01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:18.680
receiving the critical life saving breastfeeding or
age appropriate complementary feeding that they absolutely require.

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So that's our scenario. Without sufficient
safe water, food, and sanitation

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01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:30.279
that only a humanitarian ceasefire would bring. Child deaths due to disease could well

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01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:36.720
surpass those already killed in bombardments.
Now parents are painfully aware that hospitals are

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not an option for their sick child, both because hospitals are, as we've

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01:18:41.359 --> 01:18:46.199
mentioned, being hit, and because
hospitals are utterly overwhelmed with children and citizens

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01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:50.720
with ghastly wounds of war. As
a parent who I became friends with who

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sent me a message just a couple
of days ago of a critically sick little

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child, told me quote, our
situation is pure misery. Overwhelmed. My

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01:19:00.760 --> 01:19:03.880
son is very sick. I told
my wife, we have to lower expectations.

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All we have is hope. I
don't know if we will make it

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01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:11.920
through this. Please tell the world
now as we speak, the delivery of

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01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:15.359
aid is a matter of life and
death for children in Gaza, and the

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01:19:15.479 --> 01:19:19.079
conditions to provide that aid are simply
not being met. An immediate and long

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01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:24.800
lasting humanitarians cease fire is the only
way to end the killing and injuring of

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01:19:24.920 --> 01:19:29.960
children and ensure the urgent delivery of
desperately leaded life saving aids so we do

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01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:35.239
not see thousands of children die from
disease. Thank you, Thank you for

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01:19:35.359 --> 01:19:42.680
listening today the polsy and rates and
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Also, let's think about what it
means to be human human as a

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those to one of the things that
was brought up in the genocide trial,

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a human animal. What does that
really mean and what does that mean if

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we want equality for everyone around the
world, so that we are uplifting people

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01:20:25.479 --> 01:20:33.279
into the same status as those who
have privilege. Thank you for listening and

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