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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Michael Clogs in Peru, Lima, Peru. To
Speaker 1: be exact, a farmer uh and mountain guide lost his
Speaker 1: landmark uh climate change lawsuit against a European uh power
Speaker 1: company sawless Lucio Luella, who lives in the central uh
Speaker 1: An Cash region in the heart of the Andes sued
Speaker 1: r w E, one of Europe's largest emitters of greenhouse gases,
Speaker 1: over the risk of flooding his home from a glacial
Speaker 1: lake swollen by climate change. Our our We has never
Speaker 1: operated in Peru or near mister Louaya's particular village. The
Speaker 1: argument was that the emissions itself contributed towards the melting
Speaker 1: of the glaciers and thus threatening his home and his
Speaker 1: city and his livelihood. But the court in ham in
Speaker 1: northwestern Germany ruled that the probability of the lake bursting
Speaker 1: its banks and devastating his home and homes of some
Speaker 1: other fifty thousand people in the area was too small
Speaker 1: for our WE to be held liable. It also barred
Speaker 1: him from appealing the verdict, and the ruling brings an
Speaker 1: into a decade long lawsuit, which supported by the environmental
Speaker 1: group German Watch, had sought some eighteen thousand dollars from
Speaker 1: RWE to pay for zero point five percent of the
Speaker 1: costs to build a dyke to protect the homes of
Speaker 1: the people in this area. The percentage was equal to
Speaker 1: the proportion of RWE's total historic carbon emissions, according to Greenwatch,
Speaker 1: and the company is now moving quickly to renewable energy
Speaker 1: and vowves to become carbon neutral by twenty forty. But
Speaker 1: the power plant has been running on coal for more
Speaker 1: than a century, and Greenwatch warned that the Lake Paco
Speaker 1: Kaaka has sold into more than thirty times its six
Speaker 1: door value volume and overflowed catastrophically in an event of
Speaker 1: an avalanche. Ultimately, the court ruled that the probability of
Speaker 1: that happened was just one percent over the next thirty years,
Speaker 1: below the threshold of the German law for RWE to
Speaker 1: be found liable. I found this story on NPR National
Speaker 1: Public Broadcasting in the United States, and it's just brings
Speaker 1: about the idea that what we do in one place
Speaker 1: is link somewhere else to our planet for another community.
Speaker 1: So we have to since we know this, we actually
Speaker 1: have to act in this global community manner in order
Speaker 1: to be sustainable as a business, as a community, and
Speaker 1: so that we all understand that we're all interconnected, that
Speaker 1: we have consequences outside of ourselves. So moving forward into
Speaker 1: what we're going to be hearing from today, we're going
Speaker 1: to be hearing from of course, UH doctors who return
Speaker 1: from Canada. They were working in Gaza and they're going
Speaker 1: to just they're discussing in front of the press center
Speaker 1: of out what they saw happening there. We're also going
Speaker 1: to since we're talking about water and climate change right
Speaker 1: off the beginning, our big thing today is actually going
Speaker 1: to be the United Nations Oceans Conference, and we're going
Speaker 1: to hear from some of the organizers of that conference
Speaker 1: and what it is they're looking to accomplish from from
Speaker 1: the conference itself this particular year, and what we're going
Speaker 1: to hear from is is exactly actually this. Representatives from
Speaker 1: France and Costa Rica are brief brief the press about
Speaker 1: the coming Ocean's Conference and the Ocean our Planet Life
Speaker 1: supports is in essence, this is what they're saying is
Speaker 1: our oceans are our planet's life support system. In and
Speaker 1: the evidence of overwhelming temperature rises, acidified waters, plastic choking
Speaker 1: marine life, desperate us, disappearing habitats, and relentless over exploitation
Speaker 1: of resources, he continued, the health of the ocean is declining,
Speaker 1: and with with it the well being of the human
Speaker 1: being that we actually depend on our oceans UH for
Speaker 1: supply lines. However, there is still time to change our
Speaker 1: course if we act collectively again leading back to what
Speaker 1: we were saying earlier, about what we do in one
Speaker 1: place has a consequence in another place, and if we
Speaker 1: all act together to fortify what it is that we're
Speaker 1: actually doing, so that we're not tearing down too many
Speaker 1: trees to build a new town home complex in Sorry BC,
Speaker 1: where I actually am and where I actually do, watch
Speaker 1: them tear down tall trees, carbon sinking trees, to be exact,
Speaker 1: because of their older growth. And I listened to and
Speaker 1: we have broadcasted some of some of our political figures,
Speaker 1: some to say, oh, don't worry about the carbon, it's
Speaker 1: plant food. And we hear others rushing trying to put
Speaker 1: forth government mandates that would fast track development without first
Speaker 1: looking at the environmental consequences of of building that new
Speaker 1: townhouse complex, or maybe it's a dam, or it could
Speaker 1: be anything that we need to actually check and make
Speaker 1: sure how it's going to affect, what it is that
Speaker 1: it's going to take away as a carbon sinks, and
Speaker 1: what it's going to produce in carbon emissions and balance
Speaker 1: everything out so that, hey, the survival of human beings
Speaker 1: pushes forward into the future, because let's face it, our
Speaker 1: lifetimes aren't extremely very long in comparison to the planet,
Speaker 1: and human beings have only been around in comparison to
Speaker 1: the billions of years that our planet has actually been
Speaker 1: in existence, We've only been on this planet for essentially
Speaker 1: a couple of seconds. What we want to do is
Speaker 1: make sure that we have a viable and sustainable habitat
Speaker 1: for human beings to move forward into the future. So
Speaker 1: a lot to ask for, but a lot of work
Speaker 1: to maintain. So while we push forward, and we're going
Speaker 1: to hear from today, we're going to hear from the
Speaker 1: Ocean's conference, of course, and we're going to hear from
Speaker 1: the doctors returning from Gaza to Canada and Ottawa and
Speaker 1: We're also going to hear from the you and stakeout
Speaker 1: about what is going on with Israel and the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Israel's ambassador to the U N Danny Dunham, will deliver
Speaker 2: a brief statement about last week's horrific terror attack in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: He will also comment on the latest developments in the region,
Speaker 2: and we'll take your questions. If you do have a question,
Speaker 2: please remember to state your name and outlet.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Good morning. This week, two young people on the diplomatic
Speaker 3: staff at Iswel's embassy in Washington, DC, Yaron Lishinski and
Speaker 3: Sarah Lyne Milgram, were murdered on the street as they
Speaker 3: were living the Capital Jewish Museum. There were a couple
Speaker 3: Yaron was planning to propose this week in Judalem. They
Speaker 3: were gonne down in cold blood by a terrorist swimming
Speaker 3: Free Palestine. This was an act of antisemitic terrorism. However,
Speaker 3: the Gamin was the last link in a much longer chain,
Speaker 3: one that stretches from hate field protests, on social media
Speaker 3: lives and to the wholes of the United Nations. When
Speaker 3: you are officials like mister Tom Fletcher accused Israel of
Speaker 3: genocide when they irresponsibly claimed that quote and I quote
Speaker 3: it now. Fourteen thousand babies will die in the next
Speaker 3: forty eight hours. They are not engaging in advocacy. They
Speaker 3: are engaging in excitement. That claim was a lie. Mister
Speaker 3: Fletcher quietly retracted it, but the damage was already done.
Speaker 3: It is no coincidence that this statement was made just
Speaker 3: two days before your own and Sarah were murdered. We
Speaker 3: cannot ignore the war that reckless remarks play in fueling violence.
Speaker 3: Mister Fletcher and others like him must be held accountable. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Israel continues to act with restrength and responsibility, even in
Speaker 3: the face of lies. We are facilitating humanitarian aid in
Speaker 3: to gather through two mechanisms, the existing track crossings and
Speaker 3: a new system created in coordination with the US and
Speaker 3: international partners. Since May nineteenth, almost nine thousand tons of
Speaker 3: aid have entered Gaza, carrying food, medical supplies, and shelter equipment.
Speaker 3: In the past two weeks, four new air distribution centers
Speaker 3: were established inside Gaza, two of them are already open.
Speaker 3: Those centers distribute food packages to southend of families, despite
Speaker 3: Ramas establishing roadblocks and checkpoints to prevent civilians from reaching
Speaker 3: the AID. As we speak, there are more than four
Speaker 3: hundred tracks already on the Gather side of the fence
Speaker 3: waiting to be distributed, but the UN has failed to
Speaker 3: pick them up. We opened the crossings, we provided safe
Speaker 3: routes for those tracks, but the UN did not show up.
Speaker 3: So let me be clear. The UN must stop spreading
Speaker 3: panic and start moving AID. Put your ego aside, pick
Speaker 3: up the AID and do your job. Finally, at theciations
Speaker 3: for the release of the hostages continue. The facts remain
Speaker 3: is well accepted. The most recent deal Hamas rejected it.
Speaker 3: We will not stop defending our people. We will not
Speaker 3: abandon our hostages, who have been held for six hundred
Speaker 3: days now. We will not apologize for fighting back against
Speaker 3: the all.
Speaker 4: Thank you, ambassador, Ambassador Hi, thank you very much. Von
Speaker 4: Mariarty News. You're losing Israel's losing support amongst European allies.
Speaker 4: Your own former prime minister has accused Israel carrying out
Speaker 4: war crimes. There are hostage families protesting on the streets
Speaker 4: of Tel Aviv. Are you feeling the passion now to
Speaker 4: stop bombing the people of Gaza.
Speaker 3: Well, we are not bombing the people of Gaza. We
Speaker 3: are fighting a terrorist organization and as I said very clearly,
Speaker 3: we have two goals in this war. We haven't finished
Speaker 3: the job. We will not finish the war leaving behind
Speaker 3: fifty eight people there our families waiting for them. And
Speaker 3: we are committed to finish this war by making sure
Speaker 3: the orthoged are back and Hamas is out of the game.
Speaker 1: Television.
Speaker 5: My question is on West Bank. You said many times
Speaker 5: here that Israel is the state of democracy and the
Speaker 5: rule of law, and this is what exactly happened with
Speaker 5: our Chinese colleague in West Bank last weekend during the
Speaker 5: what many people called Jerusalem Day. His equipment has been
Speaker 5: damaged and he has been verbally discriminatedly abused. Can you
Speaker 5: explain a little bit what kind of rule of law
Speaker 5: is this, especially the law enforcement when they saw those
Speaker 5: kinds of things.
Speaker 6: They left.
Speaker 3: So I cannot relate to what you are showing me,
Speaker 3: but I would appreciate if you send me the information,
Speaker 3: and we were going to look into this incident. But
Speaker 3: we are a democracy and we are proud of it.
Speaker 3: Or tax journalists then, so the freedom for journalists in Israel,
Speaker 3: and we have seen it all over the years. If
Speaker 3: there were an incident. We will look into.
Speaker 1: That with the Associated press.
Speaker 7: Can you talk about what happened yesterday at the Gaza
Speaker 7: medisarian A site unsas forty seven were wounded, apparently by
Speaker 7: Israeli fire Gaza Health Ministry since forty eight wounded, one killed.
Speaker 7: What happened yesterday.
Speaker 3: So first that we make it clear we don't run
Speaker 3: those centers. We provide security for the surrounding area. As
Speaker 3: for yesterday, well, the first day, you know, there were
Speaker 3: a few riots. It took the American teams some time
Speaker 3: to take control of the situation. But I can say
Speaker 3: it out loud, we didn't shoot anyone over there. There
Speaker 3: were like reports about helicopterals shooting people and those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. It didn't happen, not even horny shot. No,
Speaker 3: not by us, not by us aw abosaor.
Speaker 8: Christian Saloni from Alchester and English UH. One of the
Speaker 8: speakers were expecting to hear from at the UH meeting
Speaker 8: today is an American surgeon who's been in Gaza and
Speaker 8: has written UH and spoken publicly about his experience. They
Speaker 8: are saying that he witnessed children deliberately targeted and shot,
Speaker 8: often in the head, during the ceasefire even how would
Speaker 8: you respond to the allegations that he's raised that Israeli
Speaker 8: soldiers have been taking the lives deliberately.
Speaker 9: Of children there.
Speaker 3: So I will listen to his worlds. You know, I
Speaker 3: think it's important to bring briefers from both sides. We
Speaker 3: have asked that it will be briefer that will speak
Speaker 3: about our suffering. Unfortunately it will not happen today. I
Speaker 3: hope it will be more balanced in the future of meetings.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you there is suffering in Gaza,
Speaker 3: but they blame it on the shoulders of Hamas, Hamas
Speaker 3: that started the war and Hamas that is not willing
Speaker 3: to lay down their weapons and release the hostages. So
Speaker 3: they will continue to be suffering until Hamas will understand
Speaker 3: that they will not stay in Gaza. Yes, please question.
Speaker 3: So at this stage we have both tracks, you know.
Speaker 3: I call it the old one with the tracks, and
Speaker 3: the UN should move faster and be more helpful on
Speaker 3: this issue. They complain a lot and should be more cooperative.
Speaker 3: And at the same time I would call it the
Speaker 3: US centers. But I think the part of me that
Speaker 3: some people look at it as a competition, and I
Speaker 3: think it shouldn't be the case. I think the UN
Speaker 3: should put the LEGO aside and cooperate with the new
Speaker 3: mechanism as.
Speaker 10: Well the.
Speaker 11: System.
Speaker 3: So I think it's responsible for inflaming the situation and
Speaker 3: I would elaborate on that. First he came to the
Speaker 3: Security Council and use the term genocide. That was irresponsible,
Speaker 3: that was not his well, no legal claim for that.
Speaker 3: Then he continued and blame us for killing fourteen thousand
Speaker 3: Palace babies, which was a lie. It didn't happen. And
Speaker 3: only two days ago he put out another provocation saying
Speaker 3: about ten thousand tracks waiting to enter Gaza. That's another provocation.
Speaker 3: You know, if you line up ten thousand tracks from
Speaker 3: the border with Gaza, it will actually be a line
Speaker 3: until the bottle with Lebanon from where it's bringing those numbers.
Speaker 12: It should be.
Speaker 3: More responsible when he puts out those statements. Thank you
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 7: Hello everyone, Thank you very much for being here today.
Speaker 7: I'm here. My name is Heathen Macpherson. I'm the Member
Speaker 7: of Parliament for Edmonton Strathconne and the Foreign Affairs critic
Speaker 7: for the New Democratic Party. I'm here to stand in
Speaker 7: solidarity with Canadian healthcare workers were here to testify about
Speaker 7: what they have witnessed in God during this genocide. I
Speaker 7: want to thank Doctors against Genocide for sharing their time
Speaker 7: with us today. This is the defining moral issue of
Speaker 7: our time. As you know, New Democrats have long called
Speaker 7: on the Canadian government to end its complicity in this genocide.
Speaker 7: The time for statements is over, long past time for action,
Speaker 7: strong political and moral choices that will put pressure on
Speaker 7: net Yahoo to end this. We demand an arms embargo,
Speaker 7: sanctions on Netanyahu and his cabinet, and the immediate recognition
Speaker 7: of the State of Palestine in order to move forward
Speaker 7: with a political solution that could save millions of lives
Speaker 7: and end this horror. Today, I'm proud to announce that
Speaker 7: I have reintroduced my motion to recognize the State of
Speaker 7: Palestine on the Order Paper, and I'm encouraging my colleagues
Speaker 7: in the Commons to cosponse this motion. No matter what
Speaker 7: party you are from, now is the time to raise
Speaker 7: your voice. Now is the time to put pressure on
Speaker 7: Prime Minister Mark Karney to do the right thing. Last
Speaker 7: week we called for the suspension of SIFTA. Europe and
Speaker 7: the UK are also considering suspending trade with Israel. Political
Speaker 7: pressure is the only thing that will end this. For
Speaker 7: nineteen months, we have watched this horror continue. Every day
Speaker 7: we see more images and videos of traumatized children and parents,
Speaker 7: of amputees, of tens of thousands of innocent people killed,
Speaker 7: forced starvations, bombings, entire families and communities wiped out. The
Speaker 7: healthcare workers you will hear from now are Canadian heroes
Speaker 7: who have put their bodies on the line to save
Speaker 7: the lives of Palestinians in Gaza. I urge you to
Speaker 7: listen to their voices today and to hear their pain
Speaker 7: and their appeal to the government as we all confront
Speaker 7: our collective failure to do everything possible to end this genocide.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 13: You so much, Heather. Really appreciate your moral clarity and
Speaker 13: moral courage in this moment that requires all of us
Speaker 13: to show that same level of courage. Good morning everyone.
Speaker 13: My name is Mesa Hawash. I'm a healthcare professional, a
Speaker 13: workplace equity and inclusion expert, and one of the founding
Speaker 13: leaders of Doctors Against Genocide, a global coalition of healthcare
Speaker 13: workers and advocates who refuse to stay silent as the
Speaker 13: world witnesses a catastrophic assault on human life, dignity, and
Speaker 13: the very foundations of medical ethics. We are healthcare workers
Speaker 13: who took an oath to protect life, an oath that
Speaker 13: now compels us to speak truth power. I stand before
Speaker 13: you as a Palestinian Canadian who knows exactly what it
Speaker 13: means to live under brutal occupation, where occupying forces control
Speaker 13: your breath, your dreams, your very right to exist. What
Speaker 13: you see in Raza today is the logical end point
Speaker 13: of this decade's long machinery of dehumanization. Hospitals bombed not
Speaker 13: just to kill patients, but to erase healing itself. Schools
Speaker 13: destroyed not just to end lives, but to exterminate futures.
Speaker 13: The tens of thousands killed are only the visible casualties.
Speaker 13: The real crime lives on in the children who now
Speaker 13: see and associate sunlight with drones. Mothers so malnourished they
Speaker 13: birth generations of already starved babies. They're tiny, deformed bodies
Speaker 13: by famine weapons, their organs pre aged by trauma. And
Speaker 13: now we are witnessing starvation weaponized with surgical precision. Walking
Speaker 13: fifteen kilometers through danger zones, this is what it looks
Speaker 13: like to queue for a single food parcel, only to
Speaker 13: be detained or bombed at the so called distribution points.
Speaker 13: This is a Sikh theater where Israeli forces star Palestinians
Speaker 13: to perform their dehumanization for the world cameras to see,
Speaker 13: while deliberately blocking un regulated systems that could actually deliver
Speaker 13: food and feed people. Genocide is a global health emergency
Speaker 13: of the highest order. It is the catastrophic destruction of
Speaker 13: every aspect of human, animal, and environmental health. It must
Speaker 13: be confronted and we are all accountable. Canada's complicity through
Speaker 13: arms deals, diplomatic cover and the shameful promotion of weapons
Speaker 13: expose like cansac fuels, the machinery of genocide today. Today
Speaker 13: we present a prescription in the form of medical orders
Speaker 13: meant to heal and treat the devastating disease of genocide.
Speaker 13: We present this prescription to Prime Minister Mark Carney and
Speaker 13: the newly elected cabinets and MPs. Mister Carney, you have
Speaker 13: the power to shape policies that can reaffirm Canada's commitment
Speaker 13: to humanity and morality. You wrote a book about the
Speaker 13: values of solidarity, fairness and responsibility. You stood up against
Speaker 13: threats to Canada's sovereignty and the unfair tariffs. Now is
Speaker 13: the time to live up to your stated values and
Speaker 13: show us real action. The world is watching. Will you
Speaker 13: be remembered as the statesman who acted to stop genocide
Speaker 13: or the banker who calculated its cost and profit? And
Speaker 13: so A prescription for justice is very simple, and the
Speaker 13: siege and the liver aid. Enforce a permanencyas fire, stop arming, apartheid,
Speaker 13: a two ways arms embargo with no loopholes. Enforce the
Speaker 13: Genocide Convention, hold Canadian's accountable, Investigate and prosecute Canadians serving
Speaker 13: in IOF for war crimes. Enforce international law, Recognize the
Speaker 13: State of Palestine and cut ties with illegal settlements, and
Speaker 13: defend our freedoms of expression. The time for empty words
Speaker 13: is over. Canada must act now. Thank you. Now you'll
Speaker 13: hear from our Canadian doctors who have returned from Raza,
Speaker 13: and then we will open it up. Four questions and answers.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much.
Speaker 14: My name is Deirdre Nunan. I'm an orthopedic surgeon. I
Speaker 14: returned from Gaza on April to seventeenth, after spending seven
Speaker 14: weeks working there. It was my fifth time working in Gaza.
Speaker 14: Although I arrived during the ceasefire, I saw freshly wounded
Speaker 14: patients every day, injuries consistent with weaponized drones and powerful explosions.
Speaker 14: When the ceasefire was broken on March eighteenth, my first
Speaker 14: patient was a young man nineteen years old. His leg
Speaker 14: torn from his body at the level of his hip.
Speaker 14: It is one of the worst limb injuries I have
Speaker 14: seen in my entire career. But yet I saw two
Speaker 14: more patients with almost identical injuries in the four weeks
Speaker 14: that followed, and so many more injuries that were just
Speaker 14: as devastating. Healthcare workers in Gaza feel particularly vulnerable. More
Speaker 14: than fourteen thousand have been killed in the last year
Speaker 14: and a half. Two of my physician friends were killed
Speaker 14: in hospitals where they worked. Two more were abducted from
Speaker 14: hospitals and are still held in Israeli prisons. This spring,
Speaker 14: I treated a pharmacist who was in his pharmacy when
Speaker 14: it was bombed by Israeli forces. He must have been
Speaker 14: holding a pen when he was attacked. The ink had
Speaker 14: spattered all over his hand. I still don't know if
Speaker 14: he lived. I was in Gaza when Nasser Hospital Surgical
Speaker 14: department was attacked in March, and when Al Ahli Emergency
Speaker 14: room was attacked in May, it's sorry in April, and
Speaker 14: we looked at each other and we wondered would our
Speaker 14: hospital be next. But the staff kept coming to work
Speaker 14: because they had no other safe place to go, although
Speaker 14: they were terrified, and they told me this that they
Speaker 14: might be killed without their families, or their families might
Speaker 14: be killed without them. I was home already on May
Speaker 14: thirteenth when my hospital, the European Gaza Hospital, was attacked
Speaker 14: with numerous Israeli airstrikes, which put the hospital out of service,
Speaker 14: killed and injured around sixty people. That was a full
Speaker 14: functioning hospital with patients, families, visitors, doctors, medical students who
Speaker 14: came every day to study, residents who came to work,
Speaker 14: to treat patients and to continue to study and advance
Speaker 14: in their exams. As a surgeon, I cannot treat a genocide.
Speaker 14: As doctors, we cannot style with famine. So we demand
Speaker 14: that the Canadian government take meaningful action to enact as ceasefire,
Speaker 14: in force a complete two way arms embargo, prosecute attacks
Speaker 14: on healthcare, including investigating Canadians who have served in the
Speaker 14: international in the Israeli forces for potential involvement in those
Speaker 14: and other war crimes, to end the siege and deliver
Speaker 14: aid to Gaza, and to uphold the genocide Convention.
Speaker 10: My name's doctor Sarah Llone. I'm a Montreal based double
Speaker 10: certified emergency and family doctor. I worked at the European
Speaker 10: Gaza Hospital from late January until February twenty seventh of
Speaker 10: this year. I saw many things that go against our
Speaker 10: Canadian values. I saw a young boy, Yusuf, who loved
Speaker 10: in this picture here, who loved to play soccer and
Speaker 10: could sing beautifully, who loved his mother more than anyone
Speaker 10: else in the world. He was a small boy, even
Speaker 10: smaller than his age would have predicted. He was a
Speaker 10: pre He was a primary school age child who was
Speaker 10: shot by a sniper during the ceasefire and had a
Speaker 10: painful journey in our hospital. He was no fighter. On
Speaker 10: top of the trauma. On top of that, now he
Speaker 10: has to deal with starvation, and now he is at
Speaker 10: risk for dying from starvation. Every human being deserves medical
Speaker 10: aid in that situation. I have as someone who's been
Speaker 10: in settings where children have experienced severe malnutrition, and as
Speaker 10: someone who has seen children die from malnutrition. I have
Speaker 10: witnessed first hand the suffering of children who are starving,
Speaker 10: and its impact on children lasts for their whole life.
Speaker 10: If we think about Ottawa, if we think of all
Speaker 10: the children between zero and four here in Ottawa, the
Speaker 10: number of children who have severe malnutrition requiring earth urgent
Speaker 10: treatment in Gaza is much beyond that of all the
Speaker 10: children from zero to five requiring urgent treatment in Gaza.
Speaker 10: Every single one of us has loved a child at
Speaker 10: some point in our lives. I challenge you and everyone
Speaker 10: else here in Canada to see the children of Gaza
Speaker 10: in their children and those of your family and your friends.
Speaker 10: These children deserve the care, dignity and support that we
Speaker 10: have an obligation to provide. We cry. What we're seeing
Speaker 10: in Gaza does not fit with our Canadian values. And
Speaker 10: we cry because as healthcare professionals, because we are unable
Speaker 10: to stop this, despite the fact that we're from such
Speaker 10: a powerful country. Right now, as Canadians, we have a
Speaker 10: small window to act, and if we don't, it will
Speaker 10: be a blot on our history. We need to bring
Speaker 10: medications and food urgently into Gaza. We need to create
Speaker 10: a real arms embargo and we need to enforce the
Speaker 10: genocide Convention.
Speaker 15: Good morning everyone. My name is doctor Rizwan Minhas. I
Speaker 15: worked at the European Gaza Hospital last year. Last year,
Speaker 15: when we were entering Gaza through the Rapha border, my
Speaker 15: fellow Clenadian Jacob Flickinger, whose worker for World Center Aid
Speaker 15: Kitchen a few minutes to help us, was deliberately targeted
Speaker 15: with his early air strikes. Along with him, four other
Speaker 15: World Center Aid Kitchen people were killed a few miles
Speaker 15: away from us. I stand here today not for myself,
Speaker 15: but for the voices underneath the rubble, for the children
Speaker 15: bombed in their beds, for the doctors killed in their scrubs.
Speaker 15: There is no independent journalism allowed in Gaza at this point,
Speaker 15: but there are international doctors. We've been there. We are
Speaker 15: the eyewitnesses to this genocide. We are telling the truth
Speaker 15: and yes, Idea forces are a lying to you. Innocent
Speaker 15: people are being killed in mass numbers, from paramedics to
Speaker 15: doctors and even children. Gaza currently has the highest amount
Speaker 15: of child amputees per capita in the world. This never happens.
Speaker 15: It does not happen unless you deliberately target innocent civilians
Speaker 15: to those people like Douglas Murray who mockingly ask have
Speaker 15: you even been there? To them, I said, yes, Douglas,
Speaker 15: we have been there, not once, multiple times, not for
Speaker 15: her photo op or headlines, but to save lives. But
Speaker 15: as doctors, we can't end this genocide. When working in
Speaker 15: the hospital last year in the European Gaza Hospital, I
Speaker 15: saw so many kids with burn wounds, very painful. There
Speaker 15: one child by Nimasm I remember, five years old, third
Speaker 15: degree burn, wounds all the way to her bone. I
Speaker 15: thought I could cheer up with the candy and she's
Speaker 15: like any other child. Half the fun is to open
Speaker 15: that wrapper. But because of her contractors from a third
Speaker 15: degree burn once, she could not even open the rapper.
Speaker 15: Instead of putting smile on her face, she became frustrated.
Speaker 15: At that time I realized not only did Israel burn
Speaker 15: her hands, but they burned her smile. This is not
Speaker 15: a war, this is a genocide, confirmed by Amnesty International,
Speaker 15: Doctors without Borders, the Jewish Voice for Peace, and International
Speaker 15: Court of Justice. To my fellow Canadian physicians, don't be silent.
Speaker 15: Fifteen hundred healthcare workers had been killed. Remember the name
Speaker 15: doctor Donald Busch was not only killed was raped and
Speaker 15: tortured before he was killed. Doctoram Abustafia did not leave
Speaker 15: the hospital till the end. He's still as a hostage
Speaker 15: with the Israeli army. And recently doctor Najar, a pediatrician
Speaker 15: working in the hospital, nine out of her ten children
Speaker 15: were burned alive, each brought one by one in front
Speaker 15: of her. She could not even recognize them. To our politicians,
Speaker 15: police have the courage to say the words, Israel is
Speaker 15: committing a jide. These children, who have died at least
Speaker 15: deserved this justice. Impose the two arms embargo and let
Speaker 15: me end with this. There is no moral difference between
Speaker 15: killing children in chambers or by burning them alive in
Speaker 15: their sleep. Both are genocide. I understand that both are
Speaker 15: evil and both demand justice.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 9: My name is Ipangje. I'm a family doctor, and I've
Speaker 9: studied how colonialism affects the health of indigenous peoples in
Speaker 9: the settler colonial state of Canada and also Palestinians and
Speaker 9: occupied Palestine. I was in Gaza last year as a
Speaker 9: medical volunteer in primary care clinics in Central Raphah, and
Speaker 9: I witness with my own eyes the impacts of force
Speaker 9: starvation on the children I care for. This is an
Speaker 9: entirely preventable famine imposed on the Palestinian people in Gaza
Speaker 9: by Israel and also its allies, who are withholding life
Speaker 9: saving food, water, and medical aid to an entire population
Speaker 9: under illegal occupation in blockade since two thousand and seven,
Speaker 9: which has also included the Israeli policy of limiting food
Speaker 9: to only meet the minimum amount of calories to avoid malnutrition,
Speaker 9: effectively putting the entire population of Gaza on a diet.
Speaker 9: This colonial practice of starvation is not new. Sir John A. MacDonald,
Speaker 9: Canada's first Prime Minister, used this tactic to ethnically cleanse
Speaker 9: and displace the indigenous population and hit in his own words,
Speaker 9: that they were kept on quote the verge of actual
Speaker 9: starvation unquote. Earlier this morning, I was at the protest
Speaker 9: against Kansek, which is Canada's quote premier global defense and
Speaker 9: security trade show unquote run by KATZI, the American Association
Speaker 9: of Defense and Security Industries, a defense industry lobby group
Speaker 9: whose board of directors include executives from companies that supply
Speaker 9: the Israeli military. One such company that is attending this
Speaker 9: conference this trade show is Gas Stops with their sole
Speaker 9: manufacturing facility located in Ottawa. They are the only manufacturer
Speaker 9: of specific engine sensors that go into the F thirty
Speaker 9: five fighter jets. These are the same fighter jets that
Speaker 9: are dropping two thousand pound bombs on Palestinians in Gaza
Speaker 9: as we speak. Companies in our own backyards are funding, supplying,
Speaker 9: and fueling this genocide. This is our problem to solve.
Speaker 9: This is our complicity that we must end. This is
Speaker 9: our responsibility to the collective liberation for Palestinians who deserve life,
Speaker 9: dignity and freedom from occupation, apartheid and genocide free Palestine.
Speaker 16: My name is Dorotea Guccardo.
Speaker 17: I run a Canadian military medical organization that sends in
Speaker 17: medical aid and personnel under the World Health Organization. We're
Speaker 17: here today to sound the alarm about the collapse of
Speaker 17: the humanitarian system and Canada's role in failing to uphold
Speaker 17: the international laws that it claims to defend. Just yesterday,
Speaker 17: we witnessed the brutal reality of the so called Gaza
Speaker 17: Humanitarian Foundation, which revealed itself not as a humanitarian effort,
Speaker 17: but as a militarized spectacle. Starving Palestinians were drawn into
Speaker 17: an active conflict zone with the promise of food only
Speaker 17: to be met with armed personnel, gunfire and chaos. This
Speaker 17: is not humanitarianism. This is using hunger, fear and humiliation
Speaker 17: to dehumanize a population. And the suffering is not accidental.
Speaker 17: As doctor Maget, a Palestinian er physician in Gaza told
Speaker 17: me and I quote in Gaza, starvation is not a
Speaker 17: byproduct of war. It is being used as a weapon.
Speaker 17: I have treated children reduced to skin and bones, dying
Speaker 17: not because of rare disease, but because they like act food,
Speaker 17: clean water and basic formula. Canada is legally obligated under
Speaker 17: the Geneva Conventions to ensure that aid is delivered impartially
Speaker 17: and that humanitarian access is protected. I urge our leaders,
Speaker 17: especially Prime Minister Mark Karney, to act in line with
Speaker 17: the message of his own book published in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 17: called Values, Building.
Speaker 16: A Better World for All. In it, he argues that
Speaker 16: we must place human dignity and shared moral commitments above markets,
Speaker 16: politics and power. If our values mean anything, they must
Speaker 16: mean something now in Gaza. We therefore call on the
Speaker 16: Government of Canada to reject the militarized aid model to
Speaker 16: restore full access to the UN and legitimate humanitarian organizations,
Speaker 16: to ensure aid is delivered safely, virtually and at scale,
Speaker 16: not through armed contractors. And to withhold Canadian funding from
Speaker 16: any entity that fails to meet these humanitarian principles. This
Speaker 16: is not only a test of Canadian policy, it is
Speaker 16: a test of our values. Thank you. I have been
Speaker 16: in Gaza. I am a PhD, not an MD.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 18: Hello everyone, Hello, thank you for joining this briefing on
Speaker 18: the UN Ocean Conference which is coming up next month
Speaker 18: from the ninth to the thirteenth of June in Nice
Speaker 18: to accelerate action to conserve and sustainably use the ocean.
Speaker 18: It will be co hosted by France and Costa Rica,
Speaker 18: and we have with us today representatives of these co hosts,
Speaker 18: Ambassador ger Permit, representative of France, Ambassador Marita chan Permit,
Speaker 18: representative of Costa Rica to the UN, and of course
Speaker 18: we have the Conference Secretary General, mister Lee Tunha, the
Speaker 18: Undersecretary General of Economic and Social Affairs. With that right
Speaker 18: over to the speakers. Undersecretary General will start with you.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you Marida.
Speaker 12: Well, dear members of the press. It's so great to
Speaker 12: meet you again. In a small but cozy room. Let
Speaker 12: me just send me say it a few words as
Speaker 12: a very brief introduction for the Ocean Conference. As we
Speaker 12: all know, the ocean that our planet, the life support
Speaker 12: the system, is in a state of the emergency. The
Speaker 12: evidence is overwhelming, the rising temperature, as certifying waters, plastic
Speaker 12: choking marine life, disappearing habitats, and relentless over exploitation of
Speaker 12: the resources. The health of the ocean is declining and
Speaker 12: with it the well being of the human being who
Speaker 12: we actually depend on our ocean supply lines. However, there
Speaker 12: is still time to change our course if we act
Speaker 12: collectively and collectively. From the ninth to thirteenth June, the
Speaker 12: global community will gathered in Ease, France for the third
Speaker 12: UN Conference on the Ocean, or you know three. This
Speaker 12: will not be just another routine gathering. We hope that
Speaker 12: it is. It is proved to be the pivotal opportunity
Speaker 12: to accelerate the action and mobilize the old stakeholders across
Speaker 12: the sectors and the borders. The thing of the conference
Speaker 12: says that all accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to
Speaker 12: conserve and sustainably use the ocean Within this thing, the
Speaker 12: key priorities will be discussed in ten Ocean Action Panels.
Speaker 12: These panels cover the topics including ocean based economy, fisheries, pollutions,
Speaker 12: links with the climate, exchange and abile diversities of course,
Speaker 12: and also others. In addition to the panels and the
Speaker 12: pleinary sessions, several special events will spotlight specific challenges and opportunities.
Speaker 12: From the fourth to six June, France will conveyed the
Speaker 12: one Ocean Science Congress. Under seventh June, City of Nice
Speaker 12: and the Ocean Climate Platform will host the Ocean Rise
Speaker 12: and Coastal Resident Summit. Nearby Monaco will host the Blue
Speaker 12: Economy and the Finance Forum from the seventh to eighth
Speaker 12: June UNO three the well culminated in the adoption of
Speaker 12: the NIESE Ocean Action Plan, a concise, action oriented decoration
Speaker 12: along where the new and expanded voluntary commitments. This plan
Speaker 12: will be our collective broofprint to advance the SDG fourteen
Speaker 12: to conserve the and sustainably use the oceans, seas and
Speaker 12: the marine resources. Is This is our moment to transform ambition.
Speaker 12: The introduction uniting governments, scientists, businesses and the service society
Speaker 12: together in a shared commitment. While your role, dear colleagues,
Speaker 12: dear friends, your road is indispensable. We count on you
Speaker 12: to conveyed an urgency and the opportunity of the unusree
Speaker 12: to the world. Your reporting will be vital in disseminating
Speaker 12: the conference outcomes, raising public awareness, and ensuring that momentum
Speaker 12: generated in Needs extend and so far beyond its shores,
Speaker 12: compelling continued actions. The future of action, the future of
Speaker 12: the ocean is not the predetermined. It will be shaped
Speaker 12: by the decision and the action that we are making.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 12: Let us choose a health, resilient and the ocean for
Speaker 12: our generation and then also for the generations to come.
Speaker 12: Before I concluded, I just want to extend my deepest
Speaker 12: and sinceres to the gratitude to the conference co hosts,
Speaker 12: the Government of the France and the Government of the
Speaker 12: Costa Rica for their visionary leadership under step Faster partnership.
Speaker 18: Thank you, Thank you, mister Lee, Ambassador monaform.
Speaker 11: Mersi, thank you very much. Thank you to Under Secretary General.
Speaker 11: Thank you to Permanent Representative of Costrika Meritza for your
Speaker 11: decisive support to ensure that the Needs Conference is a success.
Speaker 11: It's a United Nations conference. That's how we are experiencing
Speaker 11: this in continuous following on from the Lisbon conference and
Speaker 11: before that the Breast conference. And I can assure you
Speaker 11: that preparations for this conference, as mister Jundhua pointed out,
Speaker 11: this conference is pulling in lots of local and regional
Speaker 11: and national actors. And over and above that, of course,
Speaker 11: we have our cooperation with Costa Rica as we co
Speaker 11: organize this event. I won't repeat what the USG said,
Speaker 11: but suffice it to say that this is an urgent matter,
Speaker 11: ecological urgency. We're seeing the degradation of the quality of
Speaker 11: the oceans as an environment, as a source of biodiversity,
Speaker 11: as in terms of its ability to be a carbon sink, etc.
Speaker 11: Et cetera. The oceans also need to remain represent a
Speaker 11: livelihood for about a third of humanity. And of course
Speaker 11: the oceans feed us through responsible fisseries. They feed the planet,
Speaker 11: and we can see that the ocean is being damaged
Speaker 11: by pollution. Think of plastics and how difficult it's been
Speaker 11: to conclude the Plastics convention. It's also being ruined by
Speaker 11: the effects of climate change. So the goal of the
Speaker 11: NICE conference for France is to produce a nice agreement
Speaker 11: that is pro oceans, as the Paris Agreement ten years
Speaker 11: ago now was for the climate. That's why what the
Speaker 11: USG said is so important with regard to the need
Speaker 11: for an action plan that is operational, where countries commit
Speaker 11: to undertake concrete action to protect the oceans. So the
Speaker 11: Under Secretary General said, there will be ten pleaneries and
Speaker 11: ten round tables that will be organized by the United Nations,
Speaker 11: and that we'll have a blue area for accredited delegations.
Speaker 11: And there will also be a whole host of parallel activities.
Speaker 11: A Scientific Congress, for example, that will bring together thousands
Speaker 11: of several thousand researchers. There will also be a summit
Speaker 11: of citizen regions and a forum for the Blue Economy.
Speaker 11: There'll be the Global Ocean Day, the Island's Forum, an
Speaker 11: African Regional Forum, a Mediterranean Forum, and a special day
Speaker 11: the ninth of June at seven pm, there will be
Speaker 11: a special moment for ratifying the BBNJ Treaty. And it's
Speaker 11: our ambition to ensure that this treaty, which showed us
Speaker 11: how urgent a matter this is a few weeks ago,
Speaker 11: enter inter force. We're expecting a high participation. Just in
Speaker 11: terms of headson of state and government. We already have
Speaker 11: more than fifty dignitaries, more than twenty five international organizations
Speaker 11: will be attending, and the majority countries will be represented
Speaker 11: at ministerial level or by heads of ministerial delegations. Let
Speaker 11: me end by giving you France's eight priorities for this summit.
Speaker 11: First of all, the entry into force as soon as
Speaker 11: possible of the bb NJ Treaty. It really is important
Speaker 11: that that treaty become international law throughout the world. Secondly,
Speaker 11: to make progress on a sustainable Fisheri's agreement. You know
Speaker 11: as I do, that this agreement is complex and it
Speaker 11: requires us all to become involved. Thirdly, we want to
Speaker 11: agree that in twenty thirty thirty percent of the oceans
Speaker 11: will be in subject to protected areas. For an agreement
Speaker 11: and plan of action on the principle of decarbonization of
Speaker 11: transport maritime transport. For make progress on this plastics agreement
Speaker 11: that I refer to just now. Then the issue of
Speaker 11: funding the blue economy, which presupposes mobilizing international public and
Speaker 11: private financing, national and international. Seven, the issue of local action,
Speaker 11: because the number of cities and regions around the ocean
Speaker 11: means that their participation will be decisive and finally, scientific
Speaker 11: cooperation because there's still a lot we don't know about
Speaker 11: the oceans and therefore it's very important that we study
Speaker 11: that for biodiversity and climate change. So that's how France
Speaker 11: is actively preparing to host this so it and I'd
Speaker 11: like to once again thank Co Chair Costa Rica for
Speaker 11: your commitment. And above all, i'd like to thank the
Speaker 11: us G as the president of the conference and all
Speaker 11: UN services for the support that you have been providing
Speaker 11: to ensure that this conference is a success.
Speaker 18: Thank you, Thank you, ambassador. Now over to Ambassador Chhan, thank.
Speaker 19: You very much after all of you for being here,
Speaker 19: and to my colleague Ambassador Frant's remarks, I want to
Speaker 19: share our perspective as co hosts of the third United
Speaker 19: Nations Ocean Conference in June. Our response must be groundbreaking.
Speaker 19: We have heard from USG LEE the need to accelerate
Speaker 19: action and mobilize actors to conserve and sustainably use the
Speaker 19: ocean Ascelirating action means cutting decision making time from years
Speaker 19: to months, mobilizing all actors, engaging one hundred and ninety
Speaker 19: five governments, more than a thousand cities, more than five
Speaker 19: hundred corporations, and billions of citizens simultaneously. This is an
Speaker 19: opportunity for the United Nations to be together and to
Speaker 19: show that we can deliver as one. We're expecting concrete
Speaker 19: commitments with clear timelines, budgets and accountability mechanisms. This is
Speaker 19: what is different this time around, zero rhetoric, maximum results.
Speaker 19: As you have heard, will hold three concrete solutions. Before
Speaker 19: the June conference we'll host, will have the one Ocean
Speaker 19: Science Congress from June third to six, the Ocean Rise
Speaker 19: and Coastal Resilient Coalition Summit, a key event focused on
Speaker 19: sea level rise. This event will be held on June seventh,
Speaker 19: and the Blue Economy Finance Forum from June seventh to eighth.
Speaker 19: And let me conclude my remarks with a call to action.
Speaker 19: Please mark your calendars. It's June ninth to thirteenth in
Speaker 19: ease France. We expect fifteen hundred delegates, one hundred ninety
Speaker 19: five countries, five hundred binding commitments, one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 19: in new funding. The third United Nations Ocean Conference will
Speaker 19: either reverse ocean decline by twenty thirty or documents humanity's
Speaker 19: failure to act five days, One Ocean a unique opportunity.
Speaker 19: Thank you very much.
Speaker 18: Thank you. Speakers will now take some questions.
Speaker 20: Thank you very much. On behalf of the United Nations
Speaker 20: correspondence as association for doing this briefing. My name is
Speaker 20: Edith Letterer from the Associated Press. First, mister ambassador. Unfortunately
Speaker 20: there was no translation of your remarks to English.
Speaker 18: Yes that there. We did provide a simultaneous interpretation.
Speaker 20: Okay, but maybe in response to that, you might like
Speaker 20: to give us a short synopsis in English of of
Speaker 20: of of what you said. But to all of you,
Speaker 20: you've talked about accelerated action, groundbreaking moves. Can you give
Speaker 20: us some specific examples of what you're actually expecting as
Speaker 20: outcomes from this conference that might make headlines around the world.
Speaker 20: Since the oceans basically encompass the entire world and you
Speaker 20: said that, are you expecting or do you already have
Speaker 20: pledges of one hundred billion dollars in new funding? Thank you?
Speaker 18: Who wants to take that one?
Speaker 19: Maybe let me take that one in the three summits
Speaker 19: that will precede the conference. For instance, in the One
Speaker 19: Ocean Science Congress, we're expanding more than two thousand marine
Speaker 19: scientists and they will present breakthrough technologies and issue emergency
Speaker 19: protocols for immediate implementation. The one on sea level rise,
Speaker 19: five hundred plus mayors from vulnerable coastal cities will present
Speaker 19: survival strategies for six hundred and thirty million people at risk.
Speaker 19: Sea level rise is an issue that already had a
Speaker 19: high level event last year and Costa Rica co facilitated
Speaker 19: that process with New Zealand. So it means that sea
Speaker 19: level rises already in the agenda of the United Nations
Speaker 19: and the Blue Economy Finance Forum will have world Streep
Speaker 19: executives commit to fifty billion dollars in sustainable ocean investments
Speaker 19: and creating ten million blue economy jobs by twenty thirty.
Speaker 19: So there are concrete outcomes of the conference. And I
Speaker 19: have to acknowledge that every actor, every person that we
Speaker 19: have knocked on their door, has responded. Because if there's
Speaker 19: something that united is the ocean.
Speaker 18: Thank you.
Speaker 6: As you know, when there are interpreters, I usually don't
Speaker 6: speak in English. However, because of your your being the
Speaker 6: president of the Association, I will make a special gesture
Speaker 6: and I will just tell you because what I said
Speaker 6: is almost the same as what my colleagues just said.
Speaker 6: Let me just tell you in brief the eight priorities
Speaker 6: that France has set for this conference. Number one, obtain
Speaker 6: sixty ratification of BBNG threat so that it enters into force.
Speaker 6: If we don't obtain it in a nice at least
Speaker 6: that we obtain it in the very short future. Number
Speaker 6: two sustainable fishery. You know that agreement is being looked
Speaker 6: for that since a long time. Number three mobilize with
Speaker 6: the objective of thirty percent of the oceans being protected
Speaker 6: areas by twenty thirty. Number four accelerate the carbonation of
Speaker 6: maritime transportation. Number five fight against plastic pollution since we have,
Speaker 6: as you know, a treaty which is under negotiation and
Speaker 6: runs it to some difficulties. Number six and number said
Speaker 6: chain was talking about it, mobilizing financing for blue economy.
Speaker 6: Number seven deploy local action in particular for the safeguard
Speaker 6: of oceans and fight against climate change. And number eight
Speaker 6: strengthening scientific cooperation for the knowledge of the oceans.
Speaker 18: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Was it good enough English for you?
Speaker 18: We'll take another question here, yes, thank you.
Speaker 21: Ambassadors in usg is Panmela far from US News and
Speaker 21: World Report. Having covered many of these conferences, I'm curious
Speaker 21: about the commitments and point number two in the literature
Speaker 21: is to boost mobilize finances. How do you see you
Speaker 21: said one hundred billion? Are those commitments made already? And
Speaker 21: then to Ambassador Bonifont, thank you for your second summary.
Speaker 21: But you mentioned when you were speaking first both the
Speaker 21: BBNJ and the Plastics Treaty. Have you seen any results
Speaker 21: from the BBNJ. It was only past last twenty three
Speaker 21: and it hasn't gotten all the ratifications because from most
Speaker 21: of the assessments, plastics pollution is rising, may even double
Speaker 21: or triple by in the next thirty years. So what
Speaker 21: needs to be done, especially on BBNJ to actually have
Speaker 21: it worst?
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 18: On the financing.
Speaker 1: Mmmmm.
Speaker 19: I think that we we are getting already so so
Speaker 19: announcements and they will be made in the conference. I
Speaker 19: cannot speak for those who will make headlines, but we
Speaker 19: expect a lot of resources coming out of the conference,
Speaker 19: and that we've affirmed our commitment to the ocean. So
Speaker 19: we're expecting that announcements from many actors even ward street.
Speaker 9: H.
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