WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:23.519 Thank you for listening to Depictions Media Radio. Welcome to 2 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:29.760 policy and Rights the show Okas Golcom Policy Human Joys. 3 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:58.880 Welcome back to policy and right here in Depictions Media Radio, 4 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:06.079 I'm your host, Michael Clogs in Peru, Lima, Peru. To 5 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:14.799 be exact, a farmer uh and mountain guide lost his 6 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:23.719 landmark uh climate change lawsuit against a European uh power 7 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:36.480 company sawless Lucio Luella, who lives in the central uh 8 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:41.120 An Cash region in the heart of the Andes sued 9 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:47.959 r w E, one of Europe's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, 10 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:53.640 over the risk of flooding his home from a glacial 11 00:01:54.439 --> 00:02:03.359 lake swollen by climate change. Our our We has never 12 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:15.039 operated in Peru or near mister Louaya's particular village. The 13 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:21.000 argument was that the emissions itself contributed towards the melting 14 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.719 of the glaciers and thus threatening his home and his 15 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:34.560 city and his livelihood. But the court in ham in 16 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:41.479 northwestern Germany ruled that the probability of the lake bursting 17 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:47.199 its banks and devastating his home and homes of some 18 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:54.400 other fifty thousand people in the area was too small 19 00:02:54.680 --> 00:03:02.159 for our WE to be held liable. It also barred 20 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:10.199 him from appealing the verdict, and the ruling brings an 21 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:16.439 into a decade long lawsuit, which supported by the environmental 22 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:27.159 group German Watch, had sought some eighteen thousand dollars from 23 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:32.120 RWE to pay for zero point five percent of the 24 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.840 costs to build a dyke to protect the homes of 25 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:42.000 the people in this area. The percentage was equal to 26 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:50.840 the proportion of RWE's total historic carbon emissions, according to Greenwatch, 27 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:57.960 and the company is now moving quickly to renewable energy 28 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:02.840 and vowves to become carbon neutral by twenty forty. But 29 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.680 the power plant has been running on coal for more 30 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:14.520 than a century, and Greenwatch warned that the Lake Paco 31 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:20.480 Kaaka has sold into more than thirty times its six 32 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:27.480 door value volume and overflowed catastrophically in an event of 33 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:34.000 an avalanche. Ultimately, the court ruled that the probability of 34 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.319 that happened was just one percent over the next thirty years, 35 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:46.360 below the threshold of the German law for RWE to 36 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:56.199 be found liable. I found this story on NPR National 37 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:06.160 Public Broadcasting in the United States, and it's just brings 38 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.560 about the idea that what we do in one place 39 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:15.439 is link somewhere else to our planet for another community. 40 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.399 So we have to since we know this, we actually 41 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:25.160 have to act in this global community manner in order 42 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.839 to be sustainable as a business, as a community, and 43 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.959 so that we all understand that we're all interconnected, that 44 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:42.639 we have consequences outside of ourselves. So moving forward into 45 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.360 what we're going to be hearing from today, we're going 46 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:50.160 to be hearing from of course, UH doctors who return 47 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:55.600 from Canada. They were working in Gaza and they're going 48 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.360 to just they're discussing in front of the press center 49 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:07.319 of out what they saw happening there. We're also going 50 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:14.079 to since we're talking about water and climate change right 51 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.000 off the beginning, our big thing today is actually going 52 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:22.480 to be the United Nations Oceans Conference, and we're going 53 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:26.279 to hear from some of the organizers of that conference 54 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:32.079 and what it is they're looking to accomplish from from 55 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:43.199 the conference itself this particular year, and what we're going 56 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:53.480 to hear from is is exactly actually this. Representatives from 57 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:59.240 France and Costa Rica are brief brief the press about 58 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:04.279 the coming Ocean's Conference and the Ocean our Planet Life 59 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:09.360 supports is in essence, this is what they're saying is 60 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:16.199 our oceans are our planet's life support system. In and 61 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:24.519 the evidence of overwhelming temperature rises, acidified waters, plastic choking 62 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:34.160 marine life, desperate us, disappearing habitats, and relentless over exploitation 63 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:40.000 of resources, he continued, the health of the ocean is declining, 64 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:47.120 and with with it the well being of the human 65 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:53.399 being that we actually depend on our oceans UH for 66 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.639 supply lines. However, there is still time to change our 67 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.040 course if we act collectively again leading back to what 68 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:07.560 we were saying earlier, about what we do in one 69 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.399 place has a consequence in another place, and if we 70 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:19.399 all act together to fortify what it is that we're 71 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:23.199 actually doing, so that we're not tearing down too many 72 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:30.040 trees to build a new town home complex in Sorry BC, 73 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.080 where I actually am and where I actually do, watch 74 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.440 them tear down tall trees, carbon sinking trees, to be exact, 75 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:45.960 because of their older growth. And I listened to and 76 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:52.320 we have broadcasted some of some of our political figures, 77 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.159 some to say, oh, don't worry about the carbon, it's 78 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:04.559 plant food. And we hear others rushing trying to put 79 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:13.720 forth government mandates that would fast track development without first 80 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:21.120 looking at the environmental consequences of of building that new 81 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:27.879 townhouse complex, or maybe it's a dam, or it could 82 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.720 be anything that we need to actually check and make 83 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:34.000 sure how it's going to affect, what it is that 84 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:37.840 it's going to take away as a carbon sinks, and 85 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:42.840 what it's going to produce in carbon emissions and balance 86 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:47.320 everything out so that, hey, the survival of human beings 87 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:54.320 pushes forward into the future, because let's face it, our 88 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.960 lifetimes aren't extremely very long in comparison to the planet, 89 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:04.159 and human beings have only been around in comparison to 90 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.919 the billions of years that our planet has actually been 91 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:14.240 in existence, We've only been on this planet for essentially 92 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:18.399 a couple of seconds. What we want to do is 93 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:27.399 make sure that we have a viable and sustainable habitat 94 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:32.120 for human beings to move forward into the future. So 95 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.799 a lot to ask for, but a lot of work 96 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:40.360 to maintain. So while we push forward, and we're going 97 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:44.399 to hear from today, we're going to hear from the 98 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:48.039 Ocean's conference, of course, and we're going to hear from 99 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:53.200 the doctors returning from Gaza to Canada and Ottawa and 100 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.480 We're also going to hear from the you and stakeout 101 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.639 about what is going on with Israel and the Middle East. 102 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.080 Israel's ambassador to the U N Danny Dunham, will deliver 103 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.320 a brief statement about last week's horrific terror attack in Washington, DC. 104 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.639 He will also comment on the latest developments in the region, 105 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.159 and we'll take your questions. If you do have a question, 106 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.679 please remember to state your name and outlet. 107 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:54.519 Thank you. 108 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:02.960 Good morning. This week, two young people on the diplomatic 109 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.480 staff at Iswel's embassy in Washington, DC, Yaron Lishinski and 110 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.559 Sarah Lyne Milgram, were murdered on the street as they 111 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.480 were living the Capital Jewish Museum. There were a couple 112 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:21.000 Yaron was planning to propose this week in Judalem. They 113 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.879 were gonne down in cold blood by a terrorist swimming 114 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:30.159 Free Palestine. This was an act of antisemitic terrorism. However, 115 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.440 the Gamin was the last link in a much longer chain, 116 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.320 one that stretches from hate field protests, on social media 117 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:44.960 lives and to the wholes of the United Nations. When 118 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:49.320 you are officials like mister Tom Fletcher accused Israel of 119 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:54.519 genocide when they irresponsibly claimed that quote and I quote 120 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.480 it now. Fourteen thousand babies will die in the next 121 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:03.320 forty eight hours. They are not engaging in advocacy. They 122 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:08.679 are engaging in excitement. That claim was a lie. Mister 123 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:14.039 Fletcher quietly retracted it, but the damage was already done. 124 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.279 It is no coincidence that this statement was made just 125 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:21.600 two days before your own and Sarah were murdered. We 126 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.600 cannot ignore the war that reckless remarks play in fueling violence. 127 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:32.000 Mister Fletcher and others like him must be held accountable. Meanwhile, 128 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.799 Israel continues to act with restrength and responsibility, even in 129 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:40.600 the face of lies. We are facilitating humanitarian aid in 130 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:46.120 to gather through two mechanisms, the existing track crossings and 131 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:49.879 a new system created in coordination with the US and 132 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:55.799 international partners. Since May nineteenth, almost nine thousand tons of 133 00:13:55.840 --> 00:14:01.559 aid have entered Gaza, carrying food, medical supplies, and shelter equipment. 134 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:05.879 In the past two weeks, four new air distribution centers 135 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:10.879 were established inside Gaza, two of them are already open. 136 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:19.120 Those centers distribute food packages to southend of families, despite 137 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:23.960 Ramas establishing roadblocks and checkpoints to prevent civilians from reaching 138 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.799 the AID. As we speak, there are more than four 139 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.279 hundred tracks already on the Gather side of the fence 140 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:37.279 waiting to be distributed, but the UN has failed to 141 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.559 pick them up. We opened the crossings, we provided safe 142 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.679 routes for those tracks, but the UN did not show up. 143 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.360 So let me be clear. The UN must stop spreading 144 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:55.200 panic and start moving AID. Put your ego aside, pick 145 00:14:55.279 --> 00:15:00.519 up the AID and do your job. Finally, at theciations 146 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.000 for the release of the hostages continue. The facts remain 147 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.519 is well accepted. The most recent deal Hamas rejected it. 148 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.919 We will not stop defending our people. We will not 149 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.360 abandon our hostages, who have been held for six hundred 150 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:21.240 days now. We will not apologize for fighting back against 151 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:21.600 the all. 152 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:27.639 Thank you, ambassador, Ambassador Hi, thank you very much. Von 153 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:32.440 Mariarty News. You're losing Israel's losing support amongst European allies. 154 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.639 Your own former prime minister has accused Israel carrying out 155 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.120 war crimes. There are hostage families protesting on the streets 156 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.240 of Tel Aviv. Are you feeling the passion now to 157 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:42.679 stop bombing the people of Gaza. 158 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.120 Well, we are not bombing the people of Gaza. We 159 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.639 are fighting a terrorist organization and as I said very clearly, 160 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.559 we have two goals in this war. We haven't finished 161 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.320 the job. We will not finish the war leaving behind 162 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.440 fifty eight people there our families waiting for them. And 163 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.879 we are committed to finish this war by making sure 164 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.799 the orthoged are back and Hamas is out of the game. 165 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:06.960 Television. 166 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.360 My question is on West Bank. You said many times 167 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:12.919 here that Israel is the state of democracy and the 168 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:16.639 rule of law, and this is what exactly happened with 169 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.759 our Chinese colleague in West Bank last weekend during the 170 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.440 what many people called Jerusalem Day. His equipment has been 171 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:29.399 damaged and he has been verbally discriminatedly abused. Can you 172 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.720 explain a little bit what kind of rule of law 173 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.879 is this, especially the law enforcement when they saw those 174 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:35.799 kinds of things. 175 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:36.440 They left. 176 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.440 So I cannot relate to what you are showing me, 177 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.360 but I would appreciate if you send me the information, 178 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:44.879 and we were going to look into this incident. But 179 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:46.919 we are a democracy and we are proud of it. 180 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.759 Or tax journalists then, so the freedom for journalists in Israel, 181 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.919 and we have seen it all over the years. If 182 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.200 there were an incident. We will look into. 183 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.600 That with the Associated press. 184 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.400 Can you talk about what happened yesterday at the Gaza 185 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:11.319 medisarian A site unsas forty seven were wounded, apparently by 186 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.039 Israeli fire Gaza Health Ministry since forty eight wounded, one killed. 187 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:17.319 What happened yesterday. 188 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.440 So first that we make it clear we don't run 189 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.960 those centers. We provide security for the surrounding area. As 190 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.680 for yesterday, well, the first day, you know, there were 191 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.279 a few riots. It took the American teams some time 192 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.160 to take control of the situation. But I can say 193 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.960 it out loud, we didn't shoot anyone over there. There 194 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.799 were like reports about helicopterals shooting people and those kinds 195 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.160 of things. It didn't happen, not even horny shot. No, 196 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:46.599 not by us, not by us aw abosaor. 197 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:49.640 Christian Saloni from Alchester and English UH. One of the 198 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.160 speakers were expecting to hear from at the UH meeting 199 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:57.559 today is an American surgeon who's been in Gaza and 200 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:02.359 has written UH and spoken publicly about his experience. They 201 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:07.960 are saying that he witnessed children deliberately targeted and shot, 202 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:11.960 often in the head, during the ceasefire even how would 203 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.519 you respond to the allegations that he's raised that Israeli 204 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.680 soldiers have been taking the lives deliberately. 205 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:19.000 Of children there. 206 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.960 So I will listen to his worlds. You know, I 207 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:25.160 think it's important to bring briefers from both sides. We 208 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.799 have asked that it will be briefer that will speak 209 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:31.440 about our suffering. Unfortunately it will not happen today. I 210 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.119 hope it will be more balanced in the future of meetings. 211 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.079 But I agree with you there is suffering in Gaza, 212 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.680 but they blame it on the shoulders of Hamas, Hamas 213 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.200 that started the war and Hamas that is not willing 214 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.599 to lay down their weapons and release the hostages. So 215 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.480 they will continue to be suffering until Hamas will understand 216 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.839 that they will not stay in Gaza. Yes, please question. 217 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:08.039 So at this stage we have both tracks, you know. 218 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.079 I call it the old one with the tracks, and 219 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.599 the UN should move faster and be more helpful on 220 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.960 this issue. They complain a lot and should be more cooperative. 221 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.160 And at the same time I would call it the 222 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.279 US centers. But I think the part of me that 223 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.680 some people look at it as a competition, and I 224 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:28.319 think it shouldn't be the case. I think the UN 225 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.880 should put the LEGO aside and cooperate with the new 226 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:33.720 mechanism as. 227 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:39.119 Well the. 228 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:41.240 System. 229 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:45.799 So I think it's responsible for inflaming the situation and 230 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:48.319 I would elaborate on that. First he came to the 231 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:53.039 Security Council and use the term genocide. That was irresponsible, 232 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:55.880 that was not his well, no legal claim for that. 233 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:59.680 Then he continued and blame us for killing fourteen thousand 234 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:03.680 Palace babies, which was a lie. It didn't happen. And 235 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.039 only two days ago he put out another provocation saying 236 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:11.559 about ten thousand tracks waiting to enter Gaza. That's another provocation. 237 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.240 You know, if you line up ten thousand tracks from 238 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:18.200 the border with Gaza, it will actually be a line 239 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.240 until the bottle with Lebanon from where it's bringing those numbers. 240 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:22.960 It should be. 241 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.519 More responsible when he puts out those statements. Thank you 242 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:27.039 very much. 243 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.759 Hello everyone, Thank you very much for being here today. 244 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:47.839 I'm here. My name is Heathen Macpherson. I'm the Member 245 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.759 of Parliament for Edmonton Strathconne and the Foreign Affairs critic 246 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.480 for the New Democratic Party. I'm here to stand in 247 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:58.799 solidarity with Canadian healthcare workers were here to testify about 248 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:03.880 what they have witnessed in God during this genocide. I 249 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.400 want to thank Doctors against Genocide for sharing their time 250 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:10.759 with us today. This is the defining moral issue of 251 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:14.799 our time. As you know, New Democrats have long called 252 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:19.559 on the Canadian government to end its complicity in this genocide. 253 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:25.400 The time for statements is over, long past time for action, 254 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:29.480 strong political and moral choices that will put pressure on 255 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:34.640 net Yahoo to end this. We demand an arms embargo, 256 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:39.559 sanctions on Netanyahu and his cabinet, and the immediate recognition 257 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:42.839 of the State of Palestine in order to move forward 258 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:47.720 with a political solution that could save millions of lives 259 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.400 and end this horror. Today, I'm proud to announce that 260 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.039 I have reintroduced my motion to recognize the State of 261 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:58.240 Palestine on the Order Paper, and I'm encouraging my colleagues 262 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:02.160 in the Commons to cosponse this motion. No matter what 263 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:05.680 party you are from, now is the time to raise 264 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:08.720 your voice. Now is the time to put pressure on 265 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:13.759 Prime Minister Mark Karney to do the right thing. Last 266 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.079 week we called for the suspension of SIFTA. Europe and 267 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:22.960 the UK are also considering suspending trade with Israel. Political 268 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.359 pressure is the only thing that will end this. For 269 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:32.240 nineteen months, we have watched this horror continue. Every day 270 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.240 we see more images and videos of traumatized children and parents, 271 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:42.160 of amputees, of tens of thousands of innocent people killed, 272 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:50.759 forced starvations, bombings, entire families and communities wiped out. The 273 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:54.039 healthcare workers you will hear from now are Canadian heroes 274 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:56.920 who have put their bodies on the line to save 275 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:01.240 the lives of Palestinians in Gaza. I urge you to 276 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:04.920 listen to their voices today and to hear their pain 277 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:08.880 and their appeal to the government as we all confront 278 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:13.200 our collective failure to do everything possible to end this genocide. 279 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:26.160 Thank you, Thank. 280 00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:24.000 You so much, Heather. Really appreciate your moral clarity and 281 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:26.559 moral courage in this moment that requires all of us 282 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:30.759 to show that same level of courage. Good morning everyone. 283 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:34.279 My name is Mesa Hawash. I'm a healthcare professional, a 284 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.640 workplace equity and inclusion expert, and one of the founding 285 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:41.880 leaders of Doctors Against Genocide, a global coalition of healthcare 286 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.160 workers and advocates who refuse to stay silent as the 287 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:50.440 world witnesses a catastrophic assault on human life, dignity, and 288 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:54.759 the very foundations of medical ethics. We are healthcare workers 289 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:58.160 who took an oath to protect life, an oath that 290 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:02.759 now compels us to speak truth power. I stand before 291 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:06.400 you as a Palestinian Canadian who knows exactly what it 292 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:11.160 means to live under brutal occupation, where occupying forces control 293 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:15.920 your breath, your dreams, your very right to exist. What 294 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.880 you see in Raza today is the logical end point 295 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:25.799 of this decade's long machinery of dehumanization. Hospitals bombed not 296 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:30.079 just to kill patients, but to erase healing itself. Schools 297 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:35.000 destroyed not just to end lives, but to exterminate futures. 298 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:39.839 The tens of thousands killed are only the visible casualties. 299 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:44.119 The real crime lives on in the children who now 300 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:49.720 see and associate sunlight with drones. Mothers so malnourished they 301 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:55.359 birth generations of already starved babies. They're tiny, deformed bodies 302 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:01.039 by famine weapons, their organs pre aged by trauma. And 303 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:06.039 now we are witnessing starvation weaponized with surgical precision. Walking 304 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:11.079 fifteen kilometers through danger zones, this is what it looks 305 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:17.680 like to queue for a single food parcel, only to 306 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:21.759 be detained or bombed at the so called distribution points. 307 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.880 This is a Sikh theater where Israeli forces star Palestinians 308 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:30.680 to perform their dehumanization for the world cameras to see, 309 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:36.319 while deliberately blocking un regulated systems that could actually deliver 310 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:42.079 food and feed people. Genocide is a global health emergency 311 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:46.480 of the highest order. It is the catastrophic destruction of 312 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:52.039 every aspect of human, animal, and environmental health. It must 313 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.039 be confronted and we are all accountable. Canada's complicity through 314 00:25:56.160 --> 00:26:00.000 arms deals, diplomatic cover and the shameful promotion of weapons 315 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:07.279 expose like cansac fuels, the machinery of genocide today. Today 316 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:13.319 we present a prescription in the form of medical orders 317 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.839 meant to heal and treat the devastating disease of genocide. 318 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:23.599 We present this prescription to Prime Minister Mark Carney and 319 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:28.119 the newly elected cabinets and MPs. Mister Carney, you have 320 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:32.720 the power to shape policies that can reaffirm Canada's commitment 321 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.119 to humanity and morality. You wrote a book about the 322 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:40.319 values of solidarity, fairness and responsibility. You stood up against 323 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.440 threats to Canada's sovereignty and the unfair tariffs. Now is 324 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:46.839 the time to live up to your stated values and 325 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:51.279 show us real action. The world is watching. Will you 326 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.359 be remembered as the statesman who acted to stop genocide 327 00:26:55.759 --> 00:27:00.640 or the banker who calculated its cost and profit? And 328 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.920 so A prescription for justice is very simple, and the 329 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:11.480 siege and the liver aid. Enforce a permanencyas fire, stop arming, apartheid, 330 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.279 a two ways arms embargo with no loopholes. Enforce the 331 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:21.319 Genocide Convention, hold Canadian's accountable, Investigate and prosecute Canadians serving 332 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:27.240 in IOF for war crimes. Enforce international law, Recognize the 333 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:31.279 State of Palestine and cut ties with illegal settlements, and 334 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:35.880 defend our freedoms of expression. The time for empty words 335 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:39.480 is over. Canada must act now. Thank you. Now you'll 336 00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:42.119 hear from our Canadian doctors who have returned from Raza, 337 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.319 and then we will open it up. Four questions and answers. 338 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:46.000 Thank you so much. 339 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.720 My name is Deirdre Nunan. I'm an orthopedic surgeon. I 340 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:56.960 returned from Gaza on April to seventeenth, after spending seven 341 00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:59.960 weeks working there. It was my fifth time working in Gaza. 342 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:04.480 Although I arrived during the ceasefire, I saw freshly wounded 343 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:09.640 patients every day, injuries consistent with weaponized drones and powerful explosions. 344 00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:14.000 When the ceasefire was broken on March eighteenth, my first 345 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.839 patient was a young man nineteen years old. His leg 346 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.480 torn from his body at the level of his hip. 347 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:23.359 It is one of the worst limb injuries I have 348 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.519 seen in my entire career. But yet I saw two 349 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:29.720 more patients with almost identical injuries in the four weeks 350 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:33.640 that followed, and so many more injuries that were just 351 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:40.799 as devastating. Healthcare workers in Gaza feel particularly vulnerable. More 352 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.279 than fourteen thousand have been killed in the last year 353 00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:47.880 and a half. Two of my physician friends were killed 354 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:51.119 in hospitals where they worked. Two more were abducted from 355 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:56.039 hospitals and are still held in Israeli prisons. This spring, 356 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.200 I treated a pharmacist who was in his pharmacy when 357 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.640 it was bombed by Israeli forces. He must have been 358 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:06.480 holding a pen when he was attacked. The ink had 359 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.640 spattered all over his hand. I still don't know if 360 00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.640 he lived. I was in Gaza when Nasser Hospital Surgical 361 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:17.200 department was attacked in March, and when Al Ahli Emergency 362 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:21.119 room was attacked in May, it's sorry in April, and 363 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:23.039 we looked at each other and we wondered would our 364 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.240 hospital be next. But the staff kept coming to work 365 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:29.200 because they had no other safe place to go, although 366 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:31.960 they were terrified, and they told me this that they 367 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.920 might be killed without their families, or their families might 368 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:39.079 be killed without them. I was home already on May 369 00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:43.400 thirteenth when my hospital, the European Gaza Hospital, was attacked 370 00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:47.640 with numerous Israeli airstrikes, which put the hospital out of service, 371 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.480 killed and injured around sixty people. That was a full 372 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:57.359 functioning hospital with patients, families, visitors, doctors, medical students who 373 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.599 came every day to study, residents who came to work, 374 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.799 to treat patients and to continue to study and advance 375 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:10.440 in their exams. As a surgeon, I cannot treat a genocide. 376 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:14.400 As doctors, we cannot style with famine. So we demand 377 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.039 that the Canadian government take meaningful action to enact as ceasefire, 378 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.599 in force a complete two way arms embargo, prosecute attacks 379 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.240 on healthcare, including investigating Canadians who have served in the 380 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.160 international in the Israeli forces for potential involvement in those 381 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:32.960 and other war crimes, to end the siege and deliver 382 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.000 aid to Gaza, and to uphold the genocide Convention. 383 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:47.680 My name's doctor Sarah Llone. I'm a Montreal based double 384 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:51.119 certified emergency and family doctor. I worked at the European 385 00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:54.400 Gaza Hospital from late January until February twenty seventh of 386 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.160 this year. I saw many things that go against our 387 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:01.519 Canadian values. I saw a young boy, Yusuf, who loved 388 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:03.960 in this picture here, who loved to play soccer and 389 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.240 could sing beautifully, who loved his mother more than anyone 390 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.039 else in the world. He was a small boy, even 391 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:12.400 smaller than his age would have predicted. He was a 392 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.559 pre He was a primary school age child who was 393 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.000 shot by a sniper during the ceasefire and had a 394 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:22.279 painful journey in our hospital. He was no fighter. On 395 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.319 top of the trauma. On top of that, now he 396 00:31:24.359 --> 00:31:26.880 has to deal with starvation, and now he is at 397 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:31.119 risk for dying from starvation. Every human being deserves medical 398 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:34.400 aid in that situation. I have as someone who's been 399 00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:38.519 in settings where children have experienced severe malnutrition, and as 400 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.400 someone who has seen children die from malnutrition. I have 401 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.480