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Speaker 2: Robinson Provincial Park is a very special place. You're passing
Speaker 2: towering mountains, ponderous waterfalls, and icy cold lakes that are
Speaker 2: fed by these majestic glaciers. The trail draws thousands of
Speaker 2: people from across Canada and around the globe.
Speaker 3: Late June twenty twenty one, we started getting reports from
Speaker 3: hikers that their significant flooding happening on the Burg Lake Trail.
Speaker 3: Myself and another rangel went and investigated and noticed that
Speaker 3: river levels were rising fairly rapidly.
Speaker 4: The following morning, there was such significant impacts to the.
Speaker 1: Trail that we had to fly everybody over.
Speaker 4: As we started doing the flights, we could see the
Speaker 4: impacts from the air. A few kilometers of trail was
Speaker 4: sucked into the Robson River. We could see fresh movement
Speaker 4: of debris coming down the mountain. It funneled itself down
Speaker 4: the trail and sent.
Speaker 3: Tidal waves of water that basically destroyed ninety percent of
Speaker 3: the infrastructure on the trail. Bridges were dammed and rock covered,
Speaker 3: Entire structures that had been there for thirty years. We
Speaker 3: were so fortunate that nobody was injured overnight. Once we
Speaker 3: knew we had safely evacuated everybody off the trail, we
Speaker 3: immediately went into thinking about how.
Speaker 5: We were going to reopen the trail.
Speaker 6: We wanted to make sure that the new trail was
Speaker 6: going to last a long time. The Bird Lake Trail
Speaker 6: is twenty five kilometers long. Probably three quarters of it
Speaker 6: was impacted by the flood, and so there was extensive
Speaker 6: consultation to really make sure that we were covering all over.
Speaker 6: The project team for this included engineers, a geomorphologist, a geotech,
Speaker 6: construction managers, and trail specialists.
Speaker 7: By nature, BC parks are wild places.
Speaker 8: To be able to understand the critical components of a
Speaker 8: project and be able to address them in a meaningful way,
Speaker 8: it takes a lot of time.
Speaker 6: Away from the get go. Everybody knew this was going
Speaker 6: to be delivered in phases. Phase one included a bunch
Speaker 6: of planning. The planning work was happening at the same
Speaker 6: time that we were doing some significant trail upgrades between
Speaker 6: the trail head and Kenney Lake. Once that was done,
Speaker 6: we went on to phase two. Phase two was completion
Speaker 6: of Kiney Lake Campground.
Speaker 9: That phase continued on with trail construction up to the
Speaker 9: Kinney Flats intersection, and that was.
Speaker 10: The end of Phase two.
Speaker 7: We've always known that the Robson River is a very
Speaker 7: powerful system, but we're learning that it's also very unpredictable.
Speaker 7: So in the case that there is a heavy rainfall event,
Speaker 7: the river may be encouraged to jump out of its
Speaker 7: original channel and realign itself into a different area within
Speaker 7: that same wide floodplaine. So the river is a very
Speaker 7: dynamic system here at Mount Robson.
Speaker 8: Wherever possible, we've tried to either eliminate river crossings or
Speaker 8: reduce the amount of time that the trail spends within
Speaker 8: a floodplain. Practically, that means realigning the trail to a
Speaker 8: location that essentially doesn't need to cross a river wherever possible,
Speaker 8: where it's necessary to install a bridge, we have tried
Speaker 8: our best to find locations where the river is moving
Speaker 8: less quickly, and so abutments that we have installed have
Speaker 8: a better chance of survival in the case that there
Speaker 8: is a heavy rainfall and then a resulting flood.
Speaker 9: From Phase two run on to the final phase, a
Speaker 9: significant amount of trail rebuilt that included trail work up
Speaker 9: to the Phillips Drainage, a short bit of trail constructed
Speaker 9: below Emperor Hill, and a significant reconstruction of the hard
Speaker 9: Bays fan.
Speaker 11: There's still a chance that the river could divert out
Speaker 11: of its existing path, but with the information that we've
Speaker 11: gained and our ability to understand the system better, we'll
Speaker 11: be able to react more quickly in the future here.
Speaker 12: Or elsewhere in class comments as well.
Speaker 13: For us as park rangers, we're looking forward to having
Speaker 13: it open again. It's been hard to not have the
Speaker 13: trail open, mostly because we get asked every day when
Speaker 13: is it going to open. So as much as people
Speaker 13: are really wanting the trail to open up, US as
Speaker 13: park rangers are equally as excited to have people back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to policy and Rights Here Depictions Media Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Michael Kloggs, And in this next segment, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna jump right in here. Negotiations for ceasefire and
Speaker 1: maybe a permanent treaty solution between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine
Speaker 1: President of Zelenski said he hopes the US will stand
Speaker 1: strong in the face of Russian demands to lift sanctions
Speaker 1: as a condition for the ceasefire in the Black Sea.
Speaker 1: Moscow said maritime truce announced on Tuesday to allow safe
Speaker 1: passage for commercial vessels would only begin once the Western
Speaker 1: restrictions on Russian Russian's food and fertilizer trade has been lifted.
Speaker 1: Zelenski is speaking to a panel of review in Paris
Speaker 1: with journalists from across Europe. Asked by the BBC if
Speaker 1: the US would resist pressure, and it would and I
Speaker 1: hope to God bless that they will, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: The White House told Russian Grainy delegations that they agreed
Speaker 1: to to cease fire in the Black Sea after three
Speaker 1: days of separate talks with American officials in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: It looks like they are moving forward towards some sort
Speaker 1: of peace agreement and between Russia and Ukraine. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a report from the h United Nations Human
Speaker 1: Rights and they're gonna be talking about the continued settlements
Speaker 1: in the West Bank and other parts of Palestine and
Speaker 1: how they could be and sh should be seen as
Speaker 1: illegal to the to the sovereignty of in the continued
Speaker 1: talks towards a sovereignty uh with Palestine, and they continued
Speaker 1: peace towards or continued working towards peace between Palestine and
Speaker 1: and Israel as it as it is working right now that.
Speaker 5: Israel is.
Speaker 1: Acting in a matter and restricting Palestinians from building permits
Speaker 1: of blocking them from In one case, it was mentioned
Speaker 1: about olive farmers were not allowed to travel to where
Speaker 1: the trees were in order to harvest their crop, which
Speaker 1: hurt the Palestinian economy because olives are one of their
Speaker 1: big exports olive trees. Of course, in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: we remember the offering of the of the olive branch
Speaker 1: as a symbol of peace and back into between the
Speaker 1: United States and Canada. Well, mister Trump has announced a
Speaker 1: twenty five percent tariff on all things related to the
Speaker 1: auto industry. Let's see. United States President Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: announced a new import taxes on twenty of twenty five
Speaker 1: percent on cars and car parks coming into the US,
Speaker 1: in a move that threatens to widen the global trade war.
Speaker 1: Trump said that the latest terrors would come into effect
Speaker 1: the second of April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles
Speaker 1: starting the next day. He claimed that the measure would
Speaker 1: lead to tremendous growth for the car industry, promising it
Speaker 1: would spur jobs and investments in the United States, but
Speaker 1: unless said that the move is more likely to lead
Speaker 1: to a temporary shutdown of significant car production in the
Speaker 1: United States and increase prices and strain of relations with allies.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear from Mark Karney because Mark Karney
Speaker 1: is in and the Liberal government is developing a fund
Speaker 1: to help protect the Canadian auto workers. And he makes
Speaker 1: this announcement from Windsor, Ontario. And there is a significance
Speaker 1: to Windsor, Ontario, because Windsor sits one bridge across from Detroit,
Speaker 1: and they're twin cities from two different countries. As we
Speaker 1: as we know, the US auto industry is basically based
Speaker 1: in Detroit, while the Canadian auto industry is based in
Speaker 1: Win's they're Ontario. And he's gonna make a statement about
Speaker 1: a single auto part could cross the bridge between the
Speaker 1: two cities up to six times. And when we start
Speaker 1: compounding the effect of this tariff on a on a
Speaker 1: single auto part as it as it develops into the
Speaker 1: entire car, that's a significant raisin price for us who
Speaker 1: need to buy cars. I know that that my wife
Speaker 1: and I we drive quite a bit and the need
Speaker 1: for a car and an auto parts. It isn't just
Speaker 1: the the car itself, the entire car, it's also auto parts.
Speaker 1: Cars need maintenance and that you need after market parts,
Speaker 1: and those aftermarket parts are also going to be affected
Speaker 1: by this particular tariff. It could lead to the shutdown
Speaker 1: of the auto industry, according to Mark Karney, and he
Speaker 1: is preparing the Canadian government for the strain as he
Speaker 1: is also in an election with a fund that would
Speaker 1: aid auto workers to collect layoff pay via the government's
Speaker 1: employment insurance plan and allow them to get their applications
Speaker 1: to receive moneies before severance packages and other moneies run out,
Speaker 1: as a traditional need to happen with employment insurance in Canada.
Speaker 1: So we're going to hear about that also. And the
Speaker 1: thing of the thing to remember the a when a
Speaker 1: country imposes a tariff, the tariff nearly directly affects the
Speaker 1: consumers in that particular country. It doesn't necessarily cause growth
Speaker 1: and investment within the United States. It could actually isolate
Speaker 1: the United States and cause people to be turned off
Speaker 1: from working with the United States as a trade partner.
Speaker 1: We're bringing it back to again, Mark Carney, as he
Speaker 1: talks about trying to develop other trade partners and trade
Speaker 1: solutions for the auto industry that would ensure that cars
Speaker 1: and car parts can be sold as they are developed
Speaker 1: and manufactured and Canada, So we're gonna hear from other
Speaker 1: things around the world as the NATO Secretary of General
Speaker 1: as he gives a speech from Poland and talking about
Speaker 1: how Poland is leading NATO with its support by way
Speaker 1: of the GDP percentage, they by far exceed any other
Speaker 1: country that would include Canada. And he also talks about
Speaker 1: how Canada and other countries in Europe need to step
Speaker 1: up to offering more support to NATO and increasing their
Speaker 1: GDP spending percentage to NATO and defense within their own countries.
Speaker 1: Right now, Canada is far below the requirement of at
Speaker 1: least two percent that NATO would like to see. The
Speaker 1: new Prime Minister Mark Karney is promising to increase that
Speaker 1: with efforts put forth by Bill Blair, the Defense Minister.
Speaker 1: So let's move forward and listen to the clips as
Speaker 1: we have them.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: We have quite a few, including a UH warning to
Speaker 1: European countries to and and their citizens to be prepared
Speaker 1: for some sort of disaster or war, to happen with
Speaker 1: a lot of gunshots happening in Ukraine and a lot
Speaker 1: of unrested is happening in the Middle East. That hey,
Speaker 1: maybe they should be on the lookout for war happening
Speaker 1: or terrorist actions that could cause a disaster within their
Speaker 1: own cities.
Speaker 14: Four hundred fifty million citizens, it's four hundred fifty million reasons.
Speaker 12: To be better prepared.
Speaker 14: Today's threats facing Europe are more complex than ever and
Speaker 14: they are all interconnected. For three years in Ukraine we
Speaker 14: have seen a battlefield of bumps and bullets, drones, fighterplanes,
Speaker 14: tranches and submarines. Yes, our European security is directly threatened
Speaker 14: by this.
Speaker 12: It is also threatened by other battlefields, the.
Speaker 14: Battle fields in our pockets or phones or computers, or
Speaker 14: power plants or banks, or supply chains or raw materials,
Speaker 14: and in the media, the social media we consumed every day.
Speaker 14: These are all battlefields and they are being recognized to
Speaker 14: threaten our European way of life and our democracies. And
Speaker 14: the EU has two ways of responding. We can stick
Speaker 14: our heads in the sand and act like it isn't happening,
Speaker 14: or we can look these threats scarcely in the eye
Speaker 14: and say this is the reality we are facing and
Speaker 14: we will prepare. You know, Since the start of my
Speaker 14: mandate as Commissioner for Preparedness, I have visited countries here
Speaker 14: in Europe and halfway across the world Ukraine, Poland, Italy,
Speaker 14: France and even Bangladesh. And earlier this week I visited
Speaker 14: the port of Antwerp, a critical.
Speaker 12: Area in the center of Europe for.
Speaker 14: Mobility but also military mobility and goods. Of course, I've
Speaker 14: seen firsthand how different countries and locations prepare for emergencies
Speaker 14: depending on geopolitics or their geogeographical Also, position being prepared
Speaker 14: is certainly different from one country to another.
Speaker 12: There is no one size fits all.
Speaker 14: I've exchanged ideas, best practices with local authorities and experts
Speaker 14: on the ground, and these exchanges have contributed to making
Speaker 14: this strategy concrete, targeted and operational.
Speaker 12: In the EU.
Speaker 14: We must think different because the threats are different. We
Speaker 14: must think bigger because the threats are bigger. Also, and
Speaker 14: this strategy does precisely that. Setting out three zero it
Speaker 14: means thirty concrete actions. We are getting everyone on board
Speaker 14: in every sector, from governments, localities, institutions, businesses, to communities, citizens,
Speaker 14: and volunteers. We already have strong crisis response to but
Speaker 14: we can no longer rely on ad hoc reactions. We
Speaker 14: must be on the front foods, more proactive, more coordinated,
Speaker 14: more systematic, detecting threats earlier and.
Speaker 12: Acting faster as well.
Speaker 14: That's why we are set up a new EU Crisis
Speaker 14: Coordination Hub to coordinate better when a crisis hits, and
Speaker 14: this help will build on the expertise of Emergency Response
Speaker 14: Coordinations Center the ERCC to better support member states in
Speaker 14: managing today's crisis.
Speaker 12: And we are also biffing up our Union Civil.
Speaker 14: Protection mechanism, the UCPM Protective Shield in times of emergency,
Speaker 14: it coordinates eight mobilizes emergency teams and delivers life saving
Speaker 14: assistance when floods but also wildfires and other disaster strike.
Speaker 14: We have done it in Spain, in Ireland, in Mozambique,
Speaker 14: in Mayat and just recently last week in North Macedonia
Speaker 14: with more than fifty burn victims of a night lab
Speaker 14: fire being taken care of in EU hospitals. So when
Speaker 14: we get the call, we go, and I will invite
Speaker 14: you to have a look on this slide behind me.
Speaker 14: As you can see from the slide requests for assistance
Speaker 14: have grown up over ten times since the UCPM.
Speaker 12: Started in two and two. It's there you see when
Speaker 12: it was created.
Speaker 14: Of course, we had twenty twenty the COVID pandemy and
Speaker 14: then also twenty twenty two the war in Ukraine, which
Speaker 14: represented our largest UCPM operation. And we are active not
Speaker 14: only in Europe but also across the world and for
Speaker 14: many different types of crisis. And this clearly shows that
Speaker 14: our UCPM is more important than ever and that's why
Speaker 14: we are making it's even stronger with a help creating
Speaker 14: inside this system.
Speaker 12: In this new.
Speaker 14: Strategy, we are also reinforcing rescue or European safety nets.
Speaker 14: This strategy reserve helped the EU respond to every type
Speaker 14: of emergency with firefighting planes, stockpiles of vital medical, energy
Speaker 14: and transport equipment, and specialized assets against chemical, biological, radiological
Speaker 14: and nuclear threads. We will propose an EU white stockpiling
Speaker 14: strategy to ensure access to critical resources across the EU.
Speaker 14: And you can discover maybe behind me, the next slides
Speaker 14: will be what rescue or strategic reserves around the European
Speaker 14: Union you see and its secret places, but you see
Speaker 14: where we have our stock piling strategy, but we will
Speaker 14: we want to upgrade them to reinforce or capacities, providing
Speaker 14: teams and experts in case of emergency. So the EU
Speaker 14: will also work with member states to make sure people
Speaker 14: have essential supplies for at least seventy two hours in
Speaker 14: a crisis. We are also getting more young people involved.
Speaker 14: Programs like you mentioned Rosanna, like Erasmus Plus and the
Speaker 14: European Solidarity Cops will help build a new generation, aware,
Speaker 14: trained and ready to act in case of emergency. Young
Speaker 14: people also have to the know hoo to spot misinformation
Speaker 14: and all this will make our society stronger and build
Speaker 14: trust in our democracy. To conclude, I think that this
Speaker 14: is once in a generation moment for the security of Europe.
Speaker 14: Strengthening our preparedness will be certainly an essential part of
Speaker 14: this and when we prepare together, we are safer together.
Speaker 12: And now it's time to implement it.
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Speaker 15: Mercy, missie levis President, mister Vice President. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 15: I will present to you today two reports under Agenda
Speaker 15: Items seven. I will begin with the High Commissions Report
Speaker 15: on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including is
Speaker 15: Jerusalem and in the Occupied Syrian Golan, submitted pursuanto Human
Speaker 15: Rights Council Resolution fifty five slash thirty two. The report
Speaker 15: covers the period between one November twenty twenty three and
Speaker 15: thirty one October twenty twenty four. Last July, the International
Speaker 15: Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion stating that Israel's
Speaker 15: policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian territory, including the
Speaker 15: maintenance and expansion of settlements, amount to the annexation of
Speaker 15: large parts of that territory. This undermines the territorial integrity
Speaker 15: essential to the Palestinian people's right to self determination and
Speaker 15: violates the prohibition against acquiring territory by force. The ongoing
Speaker 15: transfer of powers over the occupied Palestinian territory from the
Speaker 15: Israeli military to the Israeli government is facilitating the continued
Speaker 15: illegal advancement of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and
Speaker 15: the steady integration of the occupied West Bank into the
Speaker 15: State of Israel. The transfer of governing powers also facilitates
Speaker 15: Israel's provision of services for settlers in settlements and outposts,
Speaker 15: other institutionalized long standing patterns of systematic discrimination, segregation, oppression, domination, violence,
Speaker 15: and other inhumane acts against the Palestinian people. It will
Speaker 15: also further institutionalize control of the occupied Palestinian territory. The
Speaker 15: August twenty twenty four findings of the ad Hoc Conciliation
Speaker 15: Commission for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Speaker 15: stated that the acts of segregation and i quote may
Speaker 15: amount to a situation of apartheid if no action is
Speaker 15: taken by Israel to effectively address the issues raised end
Speaker 15: of quote, Mister Vice President. Israel took measures to transfer
Speaker 15: its civilian population to East Jerusalem and to forcibly transfer
Speaker 15: Palestinians within and from the occupied territory. There are now
Speaker 15: around seven hundred and thirty seven thousand Israeli settlers in
Speaker 15: the West Bank and almost a third of them in
Speaker 15: East Jerusalem alone. The reporting period, steps were taken towards
Speaker 15: construction of twenty thousand housing units in new or existing
Speaker 15: Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, while two hundred and fourteen
Speaker 15: Palestinian properties and structures were demolished. Over ten thousan three
Speaker 15: hundred units within existing Israeli settlements in other parts of
Speaker 15: the s Bank were approved, and forty nine new Israeli
Speaker 15: outposts were established. Israel continued the legal appropriation of occupied
Speaker 15: land for Israeli settlements through declarations of state land and
Speaker 15: the establishment of military zones, nature reserves, and cultural and
Speaker 15: archeological sites. An overarching institutional and legal regime of discrimination
Speaker 15: and oppression, including of forcible addictions and house demolitions, continues
Speaker 15: to secure the forcible transfer of the Palestinian population across
Speaker 15: the West Bank. During the reporting period, over one thousand,
Speaker 15: seven hundred Palestinian owned structures were demolished in the West Bank,
Speaker 15: resulting in the forcible displacement over four thousand, five hundred Palestinians,
Speaker 15: tripling the monthly average from the previous reporting period. The
Speaker 15: majority were demolished for reasons of lacking building permits, which
Speaker 15: are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain, Mister Vice President.
Speaker 15: The report documents how targeting of Palestinian's economic, social and
Speaker 15: cultural rights forms part of the correcive environment that induces
Speaker 15: their departure and may amount to forcible transfer. Livelihoods centered
Speaker 15: around olive production were particularly targeted by Israeli state and
Speaker 15: settler violence, during which half of Palestinian farmers were reportedly
Speaker 15: unable to harvest their trees due to violence and movement restrictions,
Speaker 15: effectively destroying local Palestinian economies. Mister Vice President, the line
Speaker 15: between settler and state violence has blurred. During the reporting period,
Speaker 15: one thousand, four hundred settler related incidents resulted in casualties
Speaker 15: or property damage against Palestinians. By the end of October
Speaker 15: twenty twenty four, settler violence incident had reached one hundred
Speaker 15: and eighteen per month on average, up from one hundred
Speaker 15: and eight in twenty twenty three. Settler violence killed eleven
Speaker 15: Palestinians and injured five hundred. Israel systematically fails to prevent
Speaker 15: or punish these attacks, leaving Palestinians bereft of any hope
Speaker 15: of obtaining justice and accountability. In a study of one
Speaker 15: hundred and seventy four incidents of settler violence, sixty five
Speaker 15: complaints were lodged and only one has led to the
Speaker 15: filing of an indictment. During the reporting period, approximately six
Speaker 15: hundred and eighty Palestinians were forcibly displaced by settler violence
Speaker 15: access restrictions, mainly in Beduin and other herding communities in
Speaker 15: Area C. In many cases, this may amount to forcible transfer,
Speaker 15: which is a crime under international law that may give
Speaker 15: rise to India vidual criminal responsibility. The report before you
Speaker 15: also documents Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Syrian Golan,
Speaker 15: which continued to proceed with the support of the Israeli
Speaker 15: government in violation of its international legal obligations. Israeli authorities
Speaker 15: also continue to restrict the ability of the Syrian population
Speaker 15: to build or expand on their land, in particular in Marjdalschamps,
Speaker 15: close to the demarcation line with the Syrian Arab Republic.
Speaker 15: The report recalls Resolution four nine seven of nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 15: in which the Security Council decided that the Israeli decision
Speaker 15: to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied
Speaker 15: Syrian Golan is null and void and without international legal effect.
Speaker 15: Mister Vice President, Israeli settlement growth continues at an ever
Speaker 15: increasing rate, and, as found by the International Court of Justice,
Speaker 15: constitutes ongoing internationally wrongful acts by Israel. This represents a
Speaker 15: profound failure of the International Community of States and its
Speaker 15: rules based order, including in relation to the prohibitions and
Speaker 15: annexation and discrimination, as well as to the fulfillment of
Speaker 15: Palestinian's right to self determination. Thaigh, Commissioner for Human Rights,
Speaker 15: recommends again that Israel sees immediately all new settlement activity,
Speaker 15: evacuate all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territory, and make
Speaker 15: reparations for the damage caused by decades of illegal settlement.
Speaker 5: Hey, no warm up, no warm up?
Speaker 16: Good morning everyone, tun Moland, Hello everyone, thank you all
Speaker 16: for being here. It's a pleasure to be in Windsor.
Speaker 16: It's pleasure to be back. It's great to be in
Speaker 16: the home of the of the spitfires. I want to
Speaker 16: be home with the spitfires area. Yeah, go spits and actually.
Speaker 5: Go spits there in the playoffs, right, they're going to.
Speaker 16: Have a good run, continuing in the tradition of Al
Speaker 16: Arbor and Glen Hall and Marcel Pronovo. And it's great
Speaker 16: to be here with our two fantastic Liberal candidates, Chris
Speaker 16: Sutton and Eric Kuzmeric. And above all, it's great to
Speaker 16: be here in the home of the Canadian auto industry.
Speaker 16: You know, we're here today because of who's behind me,
Speaker 16: proud uniform uniform members, union members, men and women who
Speaker 16: are the backbone of the Canadian auto manufacturing sector. And
Speaker 16: because they're at the backbone of that sector, they are
Speaker 16: the cornerstone of the Windsor economy and they're what make
Speaker 16: Canada strong. And we're also here because of what's over
Speaker 16: there and what it represents. The Ambassador Bridge, a bridge
Speaker 16: that for almost almost a century has stood as a
Speaker 16: symbol of cooperation and of peace. It's also been a
Speaker 16: symbol of the greatest friendship between two countries the world
Speaker 16: has ever seen. And it's more than a symbol. It
Speaker 16: carries a quarter of all goods traded between Canada and
Speaker 16: the United States, one quarter.
Speaker 5: Of all goods.
Speaker 16: That is one hundred and forty billion dollars every year.
Speaker 16: It is four hundred million dollars every single day. It's
Speaker 16: an extraordinary achievement. It's an extraordinary friendship and economic partnership.
Speaker 16: Emitnan Sees Chef Alison Pois. It is check depey, quillon
Speaker 16: de pond so les change, Miss Canada, Littlestini sipan nu Kiev.
Speaker 16: President Trump's trade war has put the kinship that exists
Speaker 16: between our great nations under greater strain than at any
Speaker 16: point in our storied histories. And his trade war is
Speaker 16: hurting and it will hurt more American consumers and workers.
Speaker 16: I see that American consumer confidences at a multi year
Speaker 16: low today, and those American workers and consumers should be
Speaker 16: President Trump's concern. But his trade war also threatens to
Speaker 16: work and hurt hard working Canadians, the people I care about,
Speaker 16: the people we care about. It threatens union workers like
Speaker 16: those behind me from uniform those down the four to
Speaker 16: one at auto assembly plants, in Ingersoll and Oshawa and Oakville.
Speaker 16: It threatens people in Hamilton working in the steel mills,
Speaker 16: and up in the Saginay at the aluminum smelters, and
Speaker 16: like hundreds of thousands of Canadians who just want to
Speaker 16: earn a.
Speaker 5: Good paycheck and build a good life.
Speaker 16: It's understandable that Canadians are anxious, and that's why our
Speaker 16: new government has committed to use all of the revenues
Speaker 16: from our retaliatory tariffs against the United States, use all
Speaker 16: of those revenues to support Canadian workers. And we've already
Speaker 16: turned that commitment into action. To support workers, we have
Speaker 16: temporarily waived the one week Employment Insurance waiting period. We've
Speaker 16: changed the rules so that workers don't have to exhaust
Speaker 16: severance pay before collecting EI. We've made it easier to
Speaker 16: access EI, and we've made it more generous. I have
Speaker 16: announced that a new Liberal government will put more money
Speaker 16: in canadians pockets through a middle class tax cut, a
Speaker 16: tax cut that will save a two income family up
Speaker 16: to eight hundred and twenty five dollars a year. Because
Speaker 16: we know we're stronger together, Because we know that and
Speaker 16: we know that we're all in this together. Healthcare in
Speaker 16: Canada is a right, not a big business like it
Speaker 16: is across the river. Because we're all in this together.
Speaker 16: Our government has created ten dollars a day childcare for
Speaker 16: hard working families so that both partners can work.
Speaker 5: Because we're all in it together.
Speaker 16: We've created the Canadian Dental Care Plan that's already served
Speaker 16: one point eight million Canadians and is poised to serve
Speaker 16: more than five million more. We know we must do more,
Speaker 16: and what I want to focus on, not surprisingly, is
Speaker 16: our auto industry. Autos are our number two export in
Speaker 16: this country. It is a sector that supports one hundred
Speaker 16: and twenty five thousand jobs directly and almost another five
Speaker 16: hundred thousand jobs in related industries, many of them good
Speaker 16: union jobs. We have over three thousand, three hundred vehicles
Speaker 16: that roll off our assembly lines every single day, and
Speaker 16: the workers who build them contribute over six million dollars
Speaker 16: in taxes every single day. Canadian auto workers don't just
Speaker 16: build vehicles, they build Canada. And our auto sector has
Speaker 16: always been there for our country. So in this time
Speaker 16: of uncertainty and need, Canada will be there for our
Speaker 16: auto workers. That is why today I'm announcing that the
Speaker 16: new Liberal government will create the Strategic Response Fund, and
Speaker 16: this is a two billion dollar fund that will protect
Speaker 16: the jobs of workers affected by President Trump's tariffs. But
Speaker 16: it'll do much more than that. It will fortify the
Speaker 16: entire Canadian auto supply chain from raw materials to finished vehicles.
Speaker 16: Because we're not just pertect acting the present, we're looking
Speaker 16: to build the future.
Speaker 5: We're creating new jobs.
Speaker 16: Under our plan, we will build an all in Canada
Speaker 16: network for auto manufacturing components. Because on average, an auto
Speaker 16: part crosses that border often through that bridge, over that
Speaker 16: bridge six times before final assembly. And in a trade war,
Speaker 16: that's a huge vulnerability tariff as.
Speaker 5: It goes into the United States each time. So what
Speaker 5: we need to do is build more.
Speaker 16: Of those autos and more of each auto right here
Speaker 16: in Canada, in the New World. That will be an
Speaker 16: advantage that will help insulate us from President Trump's trade threats,
Speaker 16: and it will grow the economy right here in Windsor
Speaker 16: and across southwestern Ontario. There's ultimately be the Minnerjo critique
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Speaker 16: patre atton etules de port catilise set opportunity port Le Canada.
Speaker 16: Until today, it's taken too long to get important projects done.
Speaker 16: Projects that leverage Canada's abundance of natural resources, including critical minerals,
Speaker 16: we have to move faster to get them approved and underway.
Speaker 16: That all changes with my government to make business in
Speaker 16: this sector easier and more efficient. We will establish a
Speaker 16: first Mile Fund. We announced this last Friday with the provinces,
Speaker 16: and what this fund will do is to provide capital
Speaker 16: to build transmission and transportation networks that link extraction sites
Speaker 16: to rails and roads. Will also establish a one window
Speaker 16: approval process that means eliminating duplicative federal requirements by recognizing
Speaker 16: provincial assessments for major projects one project, one review, and
Speaker 16: we will identify projects of national significance and accelerate the
Speaker 16: time it takes to build them. One project, one review,
Speaker 16: speed size, It's time to build now. Building will include
Speaker 16: building out critical minerals in the Ring of Fire in
Speaker 16: partnership with indigenous peoples. It will include building out our ports,
Speaker 16: reinforcing and building the Port of Montreal and new ports
Speaker 16: like Gray's Bay in Nunavut. We will create complete supply
Speaker 16: chains for the future of our auto industry and new
Speaker 16: markets for it to sell into if Jamon gage a
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Speaker 16: Canada in este a fan le jon Vesti small National
Speaker 16: developed a Landresti Uttomobile Canadian. Finally, I'm committing that a
Speaker 16: new Liberal government will buy Canadian vehicles to grow our
Speaker 16: auto industry and create more good union jobs.
Speaker 5: We we are building.
Speaker 16: We are building Canada strong, and our actions are supporting
Speaker 16: the work of nearly half a million Canadians who work
Speaker 16: directly or indirectly in this sector. We're supporting their families,
Speaker 16: We're supporting their communities, We're supporting this great country. That's
Speaker 16: the thing that President Trump just doesn't get.
Speaker 5: He wants to break us.
Speaker 16: So America can own us and it will never ever
Speaker 16: happen because we don't.
Speaker 5: Just look out for ourselves. We look out for each other.
Speaker 16: That's what unions do, That's what the Liberal government is doing. Together,
Speaker 16: we will make Canada strong. Now there is another person
Speaker 16: who just doesn't get it, and that's Pierre Poliev cont
Speaker 16: Liberal in a compromis skills decrease in a com leadership
Speaker 16: Le Canadian pondon de moment deficid the.
Speaker 5: Canadian Vola leadership.
Speaker 16: Positive qui les Hassan bah Qui les Seppal. We're stronger together.
Speaker 16: Negative slogans aren't solutions. Anger is in action, division is
Speaker 16: in strength. Pierre Pouliev's approach for division sounds familiar, doesn't it.
Speaker 16: That's because, as Premier Smith said, I quote Pierre Pouliev
Speaker 16: is very much in sync with President Trump, and someone
Speaker 16: who worships Donald Trump will kneel down before him, not
Speaker 16: stand up to him. Negativity won't win a trade war,
Speaker 16: it won't pay the rent or the mortgage. And negativity
Speaker 16: won't bring down the price of groceries. It won't protect
Speaker 16: good union jobs. Negativity won't make Canada strong. No.
Speaker 5: Finally, this is.
Speaker 16: The most consequential election of our lifetimes, and Canadians have
Speaker 16: a clear choice.
Speaker 5: My government is meeting the moment with purpose, with partnership
Speaker 5: and with force.
Speaker 16: And together, under a new Liberal government, we will build
Speaker 16: a stronger and more resilient auto industry. We will build
Speaker 16: and create more higher pain union jobs. We will build
Speaker 16: the strongest economy in the G seven.
Speaker 5: We will build Canada strong. We'll see. Thank you very
Speaker 5: much and I look forward to your questions.
Speaker 2: Sir.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 17: Professor, Rector magnificus, Professor, good to see you again. I
Speaker 17: was just saying that the fact that Boland is now
Speaker 17: spending so much on defense is also because of the
Speaker 17: sund financial.
Speaker 10: Policies you introduce.
Speaker 17: You so thank you and it's great to be back
Speaker 17: in Warsaw and to see everyone here in the room
Speaker 17: and also following online. In my first piece as a
Speaker 17: Secretary General in December, I said I wanted to start
Speaker 17: a conversation with the one billion people living in Natal
Speaker 17: countries about our security. And what better place to continue
Speaker 17: that conversation than here in Poland. You are truly a
Speaker 17: leader on defense, spending four point seven percent of GDP
Speaker 17: this year. You are a strong supporter for Ukraine and
Speaker 17: Poland has put security at the heart of your EU presidency.
Speaker 17: In my meetings earlier today I thanked President Dudah and
Speaker 17: Prime Minister Tusk not just for talking the talk, but
Speaker 17: for walking the walk when it comes to our collective security. Now,
Speaker 17: I want to take some time with all of you
Speaker 17: to address the questions about the strength of the Transatlantic
Speaker 17: bond and to sketch out the past to our native
Speaker 17: summit in the Hague in June Following my recent discussions
Speaker 17: in Washington with President Trump, I know that things have
Speaker 17: been moving fast in recent months, and many of us
Speaker 17: feel less secure.
Speaker 10: In this rehabdit.
Speaker 17: Russia's war against regional and our concerns about how it
Speaker 17: will end. However it ends, Russia will remain the most
Speaker 17: significant and direct threat to our security. Russia is ramping
Speaker 17: up its defense spending and has.
Speaker 10: Moved to a war economy.
Speaker 17: It is rapidly rebuilding its armed forces built on Chinese technology,
Speaker 17: at by deadly Iranian drones and North Korean troops and missiles.
Speaker 17: Putin has not given up his ambition to reshape the
Speaker 17: global security order, and he is not alone. China, Russia,
Speaker 17: Iran and North Korea are increasing their military corporation and exercises.
Speaker 17: Beijing is carrying out its own massive military built up,
Speaker 17: including of its nuclear.
Speaker 10: Forces, with no limits or transparency.
Speaker 17: What's happening in Europe matters for the Indo Pacific and
Speaker 17: vice versa. Securing lasting peace for Ukraine is essential for
Speaker 17: European security and for global stability.
Speaker 10: The world is watching.
Speaker 17: I welcome the President Trump has broken the deadlock with
Speaker 17: Russia and that talks are going towards a ceasefire. I
Speaker 17: also welcome that the UK and France are leading efforts
Speaker 17: to contribute to a lasting peace, which we will again
Speaker 17: discuss tomorrow in Paris. At the same time, I know
Speaker 17: there are questions about the strength of the Transatlantic Bond
Speaker 17: and the United States commitments to European security. There is
Speaker 17: tough rhetoric, there are difficult debates between Europe and America
Speaker 17: of a trade and taris, and there are calls to
Speaker 17: revive ideas of European autonomy. Let me be absolutely clear,
Speaker 17: this is not the time.
Speaker 10: To go it alone, not for Europe or North America.
Speaker 17: The global security challenges are too great for any of
Speaker 17: us to face on our own. When it comes to
Speaker 17: keeping Europe and North America safe, there is no alternative
Speaker 17: to NATO. Without the US, UK, Trakiya, Canada, Norway and Iceland,
Speaker 17: it is impossible to imagine the defense of Europe and
Speaker 17: nothing can replace America's nuclear umbrella, the ultimate guaranter of
Speaker 17: our security. A strong, tense Atlantic alliance remains the bathrole
Speaker 17: of our defense, and stronger European allies are a unique
Speaker 17: strategic asset which allows the US to promote peace through
Speaker 17: strength on the global stage. When it comes to security
Speaker 17: in defense. I am absolutely confident that the United States
Speaker 17: remains committed to NATO.
Speaker 10: And to Article five. Don't just take my word for it.
Speaker 17: Listen to President Trump, who has repeatedly stated his commitment
Speaker 17: to a strong NATAL, Listen to the strong bipartisan support
Speaker 17: in the US Congress, and listen to the American people,
Speaker 17: three quarters of whom support NATO according to a recent poll.
Speaker 17: I heard this again loud and clear in meetings in
Speaker 17: the White House with the President and on Capitol Hill
Speaker 17: two weeks ago. And it's not only about words, but
Speaker 17: also about actions. US troops lead our NATAL forces here
Speaker 17: in Poland, American strategic bombers patrol, European skies and US
Speaker 17: aircraft carriers sent a message of strings at sea. Yes,
Speaker 17: Europe needs to know that Uncle Sam still has our back,
Speaker 17: but America also needs to know that its NATO allies
Speaker 17: will step up and play their full part, without restrictions
Speaker 17: and without capability gaps.
Speaker 10: It's only fair. Reassurance is a two way street. The
Speaker 10: US commitment to.
Speaker 17: NATO comes with a clear expectation that European allies and
Speaker 17: Canada take more responsibility for our shared security. So at
Speaker 17: our summit in the Hague, we will begin a new
Speaker 17: chapter for our trans Atlantic alliance, where we will build
Speaker 17: a stronger, fair and more lethal NATO to face a
Speaker 17: more dangerous world. A stronger NATO means investing in producing
Speaker 17: even more for our defense, a fair NATO means all
Speaker 17: allies doing their fair share. And the more lethal NATAL
Speaker 17: means that where we will always remain a defensive alliance,
Speaker 17: we will always be ready enable to do whatever it
Speaker 17: takes to stay safe. When it comes to spending more,
Speaker 17: European allies in Canada have stapped up with huge new investments.
Speaker 17: Last year alone, they increased defense spending by twenty percent,
Speaker 17: and over the last decade they added the extra seven
Speaker 17: hundred billion for defense, and many have pledged to go
Speaker 17: further and faster. Poland is leading the way, alongside Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Speaker 17: moving to spending five percent of GDP in the coming years.
Speaker 10: The German Parliament has unlocked more than a.
Speaker 17: Billion and extra defense and infrastructure spending. Chechia, Denmark, Sweden, France, Finland,
Speaker 17: Norway and the United Kingdom have committed to considerably remp
Speaker 17: up spending, and the European Union only last week came
Speaker 17: out with an initiative to free up to eight hundred
Speaker 17: billion for defense. All this is nothing short of a
Speaker 17: sea change for NATO's collective defense. This acceleration is absolutely necessary,
Speaker 17: and we have to keep our food on the gas.
Speaker 17: When it comes to producing more, there is also great
Speaker 17: There are also great examples. Europe and North America are
Speaker 17: now producing millions of rounds of one to fifty five
Speaker 17: millimeter shells. New gunpowder and DNT factories are being built
Speaker 17: across the Alliance from France to Finland, and there are
Speaker 17: more fish generation fighters flying in Alliance skies than ever before.
Speaker 10: We are also producing more together.
Speaker 17: TAKEES thirty five, which combines American ingenuity with British no how,
Speaker 17: Italian finess and Dutch technical expertise. European companies are supporting
Speaker 17: ammunition production from Texas to Florida, and the US and
Speaker 17: Europe are building an new Patriot missile factory in Bavaria
Speaker 17: in Germany. This is the kind of industrial win win
Speaker 17: we need more of, not less of. This is how
Speaker 17: we rebuild our industry together, and this is how we
Speaker 17: create jobs and growth on both sides of the Atlantic.
Speaker 17: There are so many opportunities to boost our tense Atlantic
Speaker 17: defense industry. Even more, there are hundreds of billions of
Speaker 17: extra euros and dollars to go around, but we must
Speaker 17: go much further and faster to remp up production across
Speaker 17: the Alliance.
Speaker 10: The needs and the urgency are crystal clear.
Speaker 17: Finally, European Allies and Canada are also doing more for
Speaker 17: our shared security through NATO. They lead seven of our
Speaker 17: eight multinational deployments on our eastern flank. An Italian commander
Speaker 17: leads NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, a Dutch commander leads
Speaker 17: our training and advisory mission in Iraq, and European Allies
Speaker 17: leads on NATO air policing of Iceland, the Austrian Balkans
Speaker 17: and the Baltics. When under sea infrastructure in the Baltics
Speaker 17: sea what threatened this winter, europ and Alliance stood up
Speaker 17: in record time through NATO's Baltic Centry without the need
Speaker 17: for a single US ship. Europe and Allies in Canada
Speaker 17: are also playing a bigger role in Ukraine. Last year
Speaker 17: they provided almost sixty percent of NATO's military aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 17: NATO's commands in Germany is now coordinating security assistance and
Speaker 17: training for Ukraine. With logistics hubs, including here in Poland
Speaker 17: and Poland also hosts NATO's Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center,
Speaker 17: a joint initiative with Ukraine to capture important lessons and
Speaker 17: innovations from this terrible work. Over the last decade, NATO
Speaker 17: has carried out a generational transformation of our alliance. We
Speaker 17: have significantly increased our presence on our eastern flank, invested
Speaker 17: in new capabilities and military infrastructure, and revitalized our defense industry,
Speaker 17: backed by large scale exercises to demonstrate our commitments to
Speaker 17: each other's defense. At our summit in the Hague, we
Speaker 17: will need to do even more to ensure all allies
Speaker 17: do their fair share, based on ambitious new targets for
Speaker 17: all NATAL allies, strengthening our capabilities, readiness, and deterns, including
Speaker 17: air and missile defense, long range missiles, and more ground forces.
Speaker 17: This will enable Europeans to take on a greater share
Speaker 17: of our collective defense while maintaining strong American commitments and
Speaker 17: presence in Europe.
Speaker 10: So we know what we need to do to stay
Speaker 10: safe today and strong tomorrow.
Speaker 17: We know exactly what forces, resources and capabilities every ally
Speaker 17: needs to provide, and we have the plans and procedures
Speaker 17: in place to defend our own nations and support Ukraine.
Speaker 17: NATO allies represent half of the world's economic and millardy might.
Speaker 10: Two continents, thirty two nations and one billion people.
Speaker 17: Together in NATO, Europe and North America are unbeatable today
Speaker 17: and in the future. So to our one billion people,
Speaker 17: I say this, be assured. The Transatlantic bond is strong,
Speaker 17: and yes, we will make NATRO a stronger, fair and
Speaker 17: more lethal alliance. That is how we all stay safe
Speaker 17: in a more dangerous world. So thank you and I
Speaker 17: look forward to our discussion.
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