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Speaker 2: here in Depictions Media. I'm your host, Michael Clogs. And well,
Speaker 2: let's talk about Aaron and uh, well, okay, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: I Atolo committee was not the most friendly of leaders.
Speaker 2: Shall we say that? Yes, he did h rule with
Speaker 2: the iron fists, and yes he did strip away the
Speaker 2: rights of women and those who were not Muslim in
Speaker 2: in Iran. Yeah, he did did do all those things.
Speaker 2: I do remember when he first came into power and
Speaker 2: over I guess it was about forty years ago that
Speaker 2: I remember him taking us hostages. And I do remember
Speaker 2: those hostages eventually being freed and meeting one or two
Speaker 2: of those hostages along the way and hearing some of
Speaker 2: the stories that they had to tell. And while they
Speaker 2: I totally accused the United States of planting a lot
Speaker 2: of CIA agents in Iran at the time, and that
Speaker 2: was the reason why he held them hostage for so long.
Speaker 2: It was to get them to admit to their crimes
Speaker 2: against the country. That yes, he did do do all
Speaker 2: of those things, and yes, Iran probably is better off
Speaker 2: on the human rights scale without him being there. But
Speaker 2: I'm going to say this that that is not the
Speaker 2: reason why Donald Trump and Nyanhu decided to attack Iran
Speaker 2: and to launch the air strikes that that are going
Speaker 2: on right now in the Middle East. That is not
Speaker 2: the reason why they they did all that. The reason
Speaker 2: why they did all that, and we're we're going to
Speaker 2: get down to the brass tacks of it all is
Speaker 2: the fact that Iran is one of those countries that
Speaker 2: lies outside of the World Bank, which means that their
Speaker 2: oil supplies are out of the control of the United
Speaker 2: States and Donald Trump won't have that. There is the
Speaker 2: reason why he went after Venezuela and capturing their leader.
Speaker 2: It had nothing at all to do with any type
Speaker 2: of drugs or the safety of the United States people.
Speaker 2: It had everything to do with him wanting to control
Speaker 2: the oil and the price of the oil. As a result,
Speaker 2: Guitar warned and has since said, that the Middle East
Speaker 2: oil production has slowed down to a halt. And many
Speaker 2: of you who are listening to this, either in the
Speaker 2: United States or Canada, are looking at your car and
Speaker 2: how much it costs to fill your fuel tank in
Speaker 2: that car right now because of this war, Unlike when
Speaker 2: a Vladimir Putin attacked the Ukraine, where many are not
Speaker 2: saying that it is in illegal action and or that
Speaker 2: it is a war of aggression. They are not saying
Speaker 2: any of those things because one it is the United
Speaker 2: States and Israel, and that they are saying many different things.
Speaker 2: But we're going to get down to what's happening, what
Speaker 2: the political standings are in Canada, and what Mark Karney
Speaker 2: is saying, the direction Canada is going to take at
Speaker 2: this particular time in regards to the Middle East. In
Speaker 2: This statement was made in Tokyo by the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Mark Karney, as he told Canada he has not received
Speaker 2: requests from Persian golf states for military aid and don't
Speaker 2: necessarily anticipate those requests. While concluding his three country tour,
Speaker 2: the Chief of Defense General Jenny Carrigan said on Thursday,
Speaker 2: the golf partners may require to fence and support amid
Speaker 2: the Iran conflict sparked by the United States and Israel
Speaker 2: airstrikes he initially supported but later questioned for breaching international law,
Speaker 2: and an Angus repoll found Canadians are divided forty eight
Speaker 2: forty eight percent opposal and thirty five percent supportive.
Speaker 3: While.
Speaker 2: The loyal Acts were oh sorry. Lloyd Axworthy, former of
Speaker 2: Foreign Minister and Liberal MP Will Grieves criticized Carney's stance
Speaker 2: as contradictory of parliament return will return next week and
Speaker 2: scrutinize the new Democrats plan, and Mark Carney reiterates Canada's
Speaker 2: priority is protecting and evacuating citizens while talks continue with
Speaker 2: the golf leaders and mister Carney is wrapping up a
Speaker 2: ten day three country visit as he seeks to expand
Speaker 2: markets while downplaying separate talks with the US and Mexico
Speaker 2: on the United States Mexico Canada agreement review analysis made
Speaker 2: managing with Donald Trump shapes his approach. So mister Carney
Speaker 2: is kind of is kind of downplaying, Uh, what is
Speaker 2: what is happening in the Middle East at the moment.
Speaker 2: We'll have to sit and see how the government is
Speaker 2: is going to respond to events that are happening in uh,
Speaker 2: the Middle East, especially against Iran. But to public opinion, well,
Speaker 2: the poll is is voicing opposition to the to Canadian
Speaker 2: involvement or government's current posture. Compared to the thirty five
Speaker 2: percent who remains supportive. The prominent voices are some action
Speaker 2: does need to be taken, but public opinion is is
Speaker 2: something needs needs to UH to be done and to
Speaker 2: to support what is what is actually happening to Aaron
Speaker 2: that more needs to more needs to be scrutinized to
Speaker 2: to hold a and more needs to be scrutinized to
Speaker 2: hold a solid opinion or a solid stance for Canada
Speaker 2: to take in the Middle East at this time. So
Speaker 2: Carnie's kind of sitting on uh A. Politically, he is
Speaker 2: sitting on between two groups of people who haven't haven't
Speaker 2: what seem to haven't. Canada has not completely made up
Speaker 2: its mind as to both politically and publicly as to
Speaker 2: a stance it should be taken. But Canada in the
Speaker 2: past has always been in support of well, let's support
Speaker 2: human rights and let's help ensure that that at Lasta's
Speaker 2: civilians are kept safe while the fighting is going on,
Speaker 2: and those evacuations will continue as they try to keep
Speaker 2: people safe, especially Canadian citizens and who are currently in
Speaker 2: the Middle East right now, as they keep them safe
Speaker 2: and bring them home. So why don't we listen to
Speaker 2: what mister Kearney said at the beginning of those strikes
Speaker 2: from a few days ago. And we're going to listen
Speaker 2: to also to what Anita Anon had to say about
Speaker 2: the Middle East and what is going on over there
Speaker 2: and what Canada's response could hossibly be.
Speaker 4: Okay, good morning everyone, look forward to taking your questions
Speaker 4: in a moment, but just in advance, I'd like to
Speaker 4: address three points in particular. First, the evolving situation in
Speaker 4: the Middle East. Secondly, I'll touch briefly on our meetings
Speaker 4: in India, and then finally the work ahead here over
Speaker 4: the next forty eight hours in Australia. And I would
Speaker 4: like to maybe observe right at the start already thank Premier,
Speaker 4: our Prime Minister alban Asi and the Australian people for
Speaker 4: the warm welcome and affording us so much time for
Speaker 4: our important discussions. Okay, to turn to the situation in
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Speaker 4: long seen Iran as the principal source of instability and
Speaker 4: terror in the Middle East. The regime and its proxies
Speaker 4: have murdered hundreds, including Canadian civilians, and caused untold suffering
Speaker 4: for millions of people in the Middle East and beyond.
Speaker 4: Despite more than two decades of negotiations and diplomatic efforts,
Speaker 4: Iran has not dismantled its nuclear program nor halted its
Speaker 4: enrichment activities. Canada has long supported the imperative of neutralizing
Speaker 4: this grave global threat. Canada stands with the Iranian people
Speaker 4: in their long and courageous struggle against the regime's oppressive rule,
Speaker 4: which is why we support efforts to prevent Iran from
Speaker 4: obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from
Speaker 4: further threatening international peace and security, because Canada is taking
Speaker 4: the world as it is, not passively waiting for a
Speaker 4: world we wish to be. We do, however, take this
Speaker 4: position with regret because the current conflict is another example
Speaker 4: of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of
Speaker 4: UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International
Speaker 4: Atomic Energy Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks,
Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear threat remains, and now the United States and
Speaker 4: Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies,
Speaker 4: including Canada. So where to from here? With a rapidly
Speaker 4: spreading conflict and growing threats to civilian life, Canada reaffirms
Speaker 4: that inner national law binds all belligerents. We condemned the
Speaker 4: strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure
Speaker 4: across the Middle East, and we implore all parties, including
Speaker 4: the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of
Speaker 4: international engagement. Canada calls for a rapid de escalation of
Speaker 4: hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving this goal.
Speaker 4: Resolution of this crisis will require commitment to a broader
Speaker 4: political solution, and diplomatic engagement is essential to avoid a
Speaker 4: wider and deeper conflict. Innocent civilians must be protected, and
Speaker 4: all parties must commit to finding enduring agreements to both
Speaker 4: nuclear proliferation and terrorist extremism. Canada will pursue this approach
Speaker 4: with like minded countries and participants in the conflict, and
Speaker 4: now briefly allow me to return to our work in
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Speaker 4: As outlined in our joint statement, Canada and India are
Speaker 4: forging a new strategic partnership in energy, in talent, in
Speaker 4: innovation and artificial intelligence. Foundational to this partnership is the
Speaker 4: new comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, which we aim to conclude
Speaker 4: this year. We're working fast and already seeing strong results.
Speaker 4: In India, we secured over five billion dollars in commercial agreements,
Speaker 4: agreements that will deepen cooperation between Canadian and Indian businesses,
Speaker 4: attract investment into our communities, and help double two way
Speaker 4: trade over seventy billion dollars by twenty thirty. The Government
Speaker 4: of India and Camico's two point six billion dollar uranium
Speaker 4: supply agreement will support India's civil nuclear energy program and
Speaker 4: our shared commitment to clean, reliable baseload power. We also
Speaker 4: launched Canada Indian Talent and Innovation Strategy, backed by thirteen
Speaker 4: educational partnerships between our leading universities. During my visit. In
Speaker 4: addition to ministerial and official level meetings, there has been
Speaker 4: more engagement between the Canadian and the Indian governments over
Speaker 4: the course of less than the past year than in
Speaker 4: total over the past two decades. This is a reflection
Speaker 4: of the world we face today and the ambitions of
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Speaker 4: on forging new partnerships in investment, defense, security, critical minerals
Speaker 4: and artificial intelligence. Australia is a natural partner for Canada
Speaker 4: in these areas and many many more areas that will
Speaker 4: deliver enormous benefits to both our peoples. I very much
Speaker 4: look forward to today's meetings with business, to meeting with
Speaker 4: Prime Minister Albanese and his cabinet tomorrow in Canberra, and
Speaker 4: now I look forward to your questions. Thank you very much,
Speaker 4: Thank you, Prime Minister.
Speaker 5: Mamom beginning the question.
Speaker 4: Beckenzi greg Global News.
Speaker 6: Prime Minister, are you confident that the Indian government is
Speaker 6: no longer involved in extortions, threats and violence in Canada?
Speaker 4: Well, the first thing to say is that our approach
Speaker 4: to foreign interference, to transnational repression, to extortion, the crime
Speaker 4: of extortion in all cases is one of vigilance and engagement.
Speaker 4: Vigilance In terms of tightening the legal framework in Canada,
Speaker 4: I won't go into all the details. I think you're
Speaker 4: familiar with the six laws that are still before Parliament
Speaker 4: and the Senate, which will make a major difference to
Speaker 4: the powers of sentencing, the bail regime, and tightening our
Speaker 4: asylum system, tightening our borders, all of which will help
Speaker 4: address these issues first point. The second element of vigilance,
Speaker 4: of course, is adequate resources for law enforcement, thousand more
Speaker 4: RCMP order, a thousand more border service agents, coordination at
Speaker 4: multiple levels of government, reinforcing resources for our security our
Speaker 4: various security agencies as well. The third element of vigilance
Speaker 4: is deploying actively our intelligence services and the highest levels
Speaker 4: of government being informed on a regular basis in terms
Speaker 4: of in terms of developments. We've also were in the
Speaker 4: process structurally of appointing the Foreign Interference Commissioner. We proposed
Speaker 4: an individual who was the former electoral officer British Columbia.
Speaker 4: We're consulting with the opposition parties to move forward on that.
Speaker 4: So all of those are structural. Then it comes to
Speaker 4: a question of engagement and engagement. To engage, you have
Speaker 4: to be able to talk to countries, countries where there
Speaker 4: have been issues, and to raise issues, including at the
Speaker 4: highest levels, to ensure that the cooperation is there, whether
Speaker 4: it's extortion or some other form of cross border criminal
Speaker 4: activity or security risks.
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Speaker 4: That is what we have done from the moment that
Speaker 4: we re established a dialogue at the leader level with India,
Speaker 4: almost immediately we had meetings with our national security advisors.
Speaker 4: They've been followed up on multiple occasions. We've re established
Speaker 4: national security cooperation, We've re established defense, we're re establishing
Speaker 4: defense cooperation and sharing of information. And in the meetings
Speaker 4: of ministers, including the Foreign Minister UH, these issues have
Speaker 4: been raised. They've been frank discussions and including in my
Speaker 4: meetings with Prime Minister Mode, including in Delhi two days ago.
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Speaker 9: Steve Chase with the Globe Mail, I want to ask
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Speaker 9: the report and the Globe Mail this week that showed
Speaker 9: the Canadian authorities gathered up evidence showing that Indian officials
Speaker 9: in their Vancouver consulate were assisting by providing information that
Speaker 9: helped with the assassination of mister Ninjer.
Speaker 4: And I want to ask you about.
Speaker 9: Your predecessor said there was credible allegations of a link
Speaker 9: between the Indian government and Canada.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that assessment? And finally, what are
Speaker 4: you thinking? Could you the full quotation that you're using,
Speaker 4: I think you've cut it off.
Speaker 9: Your predecessor, yes, said in that was the comments that
Speaker 9: there were credible allegations of a link between the government
Speaker 9: of Canada, a government of India and the death of
Speaker 9: mister Ninjer.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that assessment?
Speaker 8: And finally, what is the government doing to hold India accountable?
Speaker 8: For the death of mister Nijer.
Speaker 4: So all of those questions fall under let me, all
Speaker 4: those questions fall under the same rubric, which is there
Speaker 4: is a process underway to this is a criminal procedure.
Speaker 4: It's a process underway, and my job at this point
Speaker 4: with respect to that process is to make sure that
Speaker 4: I do not say anything that prejudices the prospect of
Speaker 4: justice being served. So in that context, I can't comment
Speaker 4: on the specific aspect those three aspects of your question,
Speaker 4: and I hope you'll appreciate that what is important here
Speaker 4: is that justice is served and that the immense resources
Speaker 4: that are put in place in order to ensure that
Speaker 4: justice is served run there of course. Nice thanks Nction.
Speaker 7: Morning, Prime Minister's monthany Taylor National Post. You have outlined
Speaker 7: what steps Canada is doing to protect citizens from foreign
Speaker 7: interference and in transnational repression. But a lot of confusion exists,
Speaker 7: including within your own cabinet, about what Canada thinks India
Speaker 7: is doing. So I'm hoping that you can clarify in
Speaker 7: a yes or no way do you agree with your
Speaker 7: own government official yes or no, who suggested India is
Speaker 7: no longer actively interfering in Canada's democratic process, and that
Speaker 7: Indian agents are no longer involved in murders and extortions
Speaker 7: within Canada.
Speaker 4: Yes or no, Well, I'm not sure that's an exact quote.
Speaker 2: That is what he suggested.
Speaker 4: That's not a quote.
Speaker 6: I can read the quote.
Speaker 4: I think. Well, we can debate whether you had a
Speaker 4: discussion that was not for quotation. But if you want
Speaker 4: to read a quote from something that's not for quotation,
Speaker 4: these are the words I would use in this important
Speaker 4: I would not use those words, okay first point. Secondly,
Speaker 4: our approach, as I said in response to the first question,
Speaker 4: is one of the apologies of the second question, as
Speaker 4: one of vigilance and engagement, and we have made progress.
Speaker 4: But regardless of the progress that has been made, one
Speaker 4: should it is our responsibility to have both aspects. First
Speaker 4: and foremost, to be vigilant, Okay, vigilant in terms of
Speaker 4: tightening the laws, vigilant ensuring that we have the right
Speaker 4: resources at the security level, at the police level, in
Speaker 4: terms of the coordination, vigilant ensuring that those resources are active,
Speaker 4: Vigilant in ensuring that we are using all sources of
Speaker 4: intelligence to direct resources to protect Canadians. And then alongside that,
Speaker 4: to be engaged with countries so that if there, when,
Speaker 4: if and when there are issues or even a sense
Speaker 4: of issues, that we are raising them. Engagement at the
Speaker 4: level of national security and engagement at the level of defense,
Speaker 4: engagement at the level of police, engagement at the political level,
Speaker 4: all of those and if you look at the record,
Speaker 4: if I may just finish on this of this government
Speaker 4: in less than a year, six major crime bills, many
Speaker 4: of which address specifically these issues. Thousands of new resources
Speaker 4: being put in the RCMP and border security, huge technical
Speaker 4: resources also being put in place. That's an odd way
Speaker 4: to put it, but physical resources in terms of surveillance
Speaker 4: and re engagement, including at the national security level and
Speaker 4: the political level, so that we can address these issues
Speaker 4: actually in other words today and perspectively, so that prevention
Speaker 4: is there as well as redress. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Next question Amigilbeman CTV News. I still have not heard
Speaker 5: a clear answer as to whether you believe India is
Speaker 5: still actively involved in foreign interference And if you would
Speaker 5: not use those words of the government official, will there
Speaker 5: be consequences for that official.
Speaker 4: There will not be consequences for those official. Look, there
Speaker 4: are are in terms of vigilance and monitoring which we
Speaker 4: do actively, on which I receive regular briefings. There are
Speaker 4: aspects of those briefings that I can share in public,
Speaker 4: and I'm not going to I'm not going to betray them.
Speaker 4: I will tell you that there is progress on these issues,
Speaker 4: and that progress is a product, in my judgment, it's
Speaker 4: a product of the resources we're putting in. It's a
Speaker 4: product of the clarity of our position. We will not
Speaker 4: tolerate foreign interference transnational repression by anyone, and I stress
Speaker 4: by anyone. There's a wide range of countries who make
Speaker 4: these efforts from time to time, and we will call
Speaker 4: it out and we will engage with it in a
Speaker 4: way that is as effective as possible to protect Canadians.
Speaker 4: And that's what we're doing.
Speaker 8: Next question Alex Baling All of the Toronto Star.
Speaker 10: In your Davos speech, you said that one of Canada's
Speaker 10: principles and the principal aspects of our foreign policy is
Speaker 10: the prohibition of the use of force.
Speaker 8: That's not consistent with the UN Charter.
Speaker 10: Now you're saying, albeit regretfully, we've supported this action despite
Speaker 10: the lack.
Speaker 8: Of engagement with the United Nations.
Speaker 10: So it seems like there's a potential or it seems
Speaker 10: like there is a contradiction in those two things.
Speaker 8: So can you explain how we arrive at that position.
Speaker 4: Well, there's a few things, Alex. What I also said
Speaker 4: in the Davos speech and said today, and this is course,
Speaker 4: we take the world as it is, not as we
Speaker 4: wish it to be. We're not going to passively wait
Speaker 4: for the world as we wish it would be. We
Speaker 4: would like international law to always in everywhere be respected.
Speaker 4: Cada's intention, Candida's policy itself, is to always in everywhere
Speaker 4: respect international law. So that's the first point. Secondly, I
Speaker 4: will observe and I will take up. I would take up,
Speaker 4: and it's not fair to your colleagues, but I would
Speaker 4: take up all the remaining time in this press conference.
Speaker 4: Times ten. If I went through the serial violations of
Speaker 4: international law by the Islamic Republic of Iran over decades,
Speaker 4: over decades, and all the efforts under the international system
Speaker 4: to contain those using international frameworks and international laws, it
Speaker 4: is a failure of the international system that this country
Speaker 4: repeatedly violated international law, terrorized an entire region and through extension,
Speaker 4: the world, including the murder of Canadians. Let's not forget
Speaker 4: that repression of women, the murder of fifteen thousand of
Speaker 4: their citizens within the past few weeks for protest now
Speaker 4: brings us to the question though, which I think is
Speaker 4: in your question of the current situation and it's perspective
Speaker 4: relative to international law. And look, the first thing I'll
Speaker 4: say it with respect to that, it's for the United
Speaker 4: States and Israel to make the case and for whether
Speaker 4: or not that is the case, and it's for others
Speaker 4: more expert than me, non lawyered, certainly non international lawyer,
Speaker 4: who are more expert to make that determination. And that said, well,
Speaker 4: Canada was not asked to participate. You know that we
Speaker 4: were not informed in advance. We were not asked to participate.
Speaker 4: Prima facia. It appears that these actions are inconsistent with
Speaker 4: international law, so we would not have been in a
Speaker 4: position earlier this week or the weekend. I guess to
Speaker 4: take a judgment that met our standards. If we had
Speaker 4: been asked to participate, we weren't. We have made that
Speaker 4: formal judgment. It's for others to make those judgments. As
Speaker 4: I said, Alex, we were dealing with the world as
Speaker 4: it is. So in the contextxt of what's happened, what's
Speaker 4: been begun. We support the efforts to end the Iranian
Speaker 4: nuclear program, and it's decades long process, regimes, decade long
Speaker 4: process of state sponsored terrorism. But we remind the international
Speaker 4: law binds. It binds, particularly with respect to civilian, civilian
Speaker 4: and infrastructure, and it binds all parties, should bind all parties.
Speaker 4: We call for a de escalation. We're prepared to assist
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Speaker 3: What was President trump reaction to you awarding the airstrikesn.
Speaker 4: I Ran I haven't spoken to the President.
Speaker 12: What does that say about your relationship President?
Speaker 4: I don't think it says anything, to be honest, Americans, Look,
Speaker 4: we take a position. Just let me just make a
Speaker 4: clear point. We took a position not asking for something.
Speaker 4: We took a position because we view the nuclear threat
Speaker 4: and the export of terrorism of Iran over decades as
Speaker 4: one of the gravest threats to international peace and security,
Speaker 4: and the Americans in the Israeli haven't taken this action
Speaker 4: in that limited sense. We supported that aspect. That is
Speaker 4: not a blank check. That is not us participating, That
Speaker 4: is not us asking for something in exchange for that.
Speaker 4: None of that is true. That is just a straight
Speaker 4: up position. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Next question, Prime Minister Brian Plat from Bloomberg the what
Speaker 3: we know so far as the Iran Supreme Leader has
Speaker 3: been killed, many other senior officials have been killed. Do
Speaker 3: you have a position on what replaces that in Iran?
Speaker 3: What kind of regime comes next? Do you want to
Speaker 3: see a wholesale regime change here or stability more important?
Speaker 4: Well, look, we have long wanted for decades and continue
Speaker 4: to this hour, that the will of the Iranian people
Speaker 4: is respected and that a government consistent with the will
Speaker 4: of the Iranian people comes in place. How that would
Speaker 4: come about, I don't have I mean, it's an exceptionally
Speaker 4: complex situation. I'm not inserting a warring into conflict that
Speaker 4: others started.
Speaker 5: Catherine too, Hello, Prime Minister, thank you for your time.
Speaker 13: I wonder if you can just help us better understand
Speaker 13: Canada's position about what is happening at this moment.
Speaker 1: There's been a call for a ceasefire. We heard from
Speaker 1: your ministers.
Speaker 13: Is Canada explicitly asking the United States and Israel to
Speaker 13: stop as well, making those cases to their officials, and
Speaker 13: also the United States has made a call for the
Speaker 13: people of the on to rise up. What is Canada's
Speaker 13: position on.
Speaker 4: The well, I'll just refer to my answer to the
Speaker 4: previous question on the second and with respect to the first,
Speaker 4: any cessation of hostilities, you call it a ceasefire or
Speaker 4: cessation of hostilities, full de escalation. It takes all sides
Speaker 4: in order to do that, As I said in my
Speaker 4: comments in our judgment, that will take a broader diplomatic
Speaker 4: effort that broader diplomatic effort will very much have to
Speaker 4: involve the countries in the Middle East that have been
Speaker 4: attacked now by Iran, their civilian infrastructure, their civilians have
Speaker 4: been attacked, and certainly that has been They've been successful
Speaker 4: largely in defending themselves. Some of the missiles have gotten through,
Speaker 4: but the intent has been widespread civilian casualties and damage
Speaker 4: to civilian infrastructure to those countries, many of whom are
Speaker 4: our close allies of Canada, need to be involved in
Speaker 4: any amatic solution, thank you New York Times.
Speaker 12: Has Canada seen any evidence of the imminent danger the
Speaker 12: president cited for launching the attack on the weekend, and
Speaker 12: should anyone take any confidence in his view that this
Speaker 12: will be over in a matter of weeks?
Speaker 4: Well, I, you know, I I'm on intelligence. I can't
Speaker 4: share intelligence that we've received. It's not appropriate, particularly within
Speaker 4: broader intelligence circles that we may have received from others.
Speaker 4: So I can't comment on that aspect.
Speaker 12: I've got one last question, and the and the and
Speaker 12: the timing the president's you know, president's forecast that this
Speaker 12: will all be done in a matter of weeks.
Speaker 4: I won't speculate on it. I what I would say
Speaker 4: is that in our view that the efforts should begin
Speaker 4: now to de escalate the situation. And and Ian, as
Speaker 4: I reference to my previous answer, that needs to involve
Speaker 4: broader parties than just the United States, Israel and Arrant.
Speaker 4: We'll do a last question to Elia Eliot couldn't have
Speaker 4: financial times. Do you see this war as a war
Speaker 4: of choice or a war of necessity?
Speaker 12: In particular, we had the President saying that the nuclear
Speaker 12: program was obliterated early this year.
Speaker 8: Now you're saying it was an imminent threat.
Speaker 4: So we're trying to I wasn't saying I didn't say
Speaker 4: a minute threat. Well, is it a threat or it
Speaker 4: wasn't a threat? Iran having a nuclear bomb is a
Speaker 4: massive threat. It would be the biggest threat. This is again, okay,
Speaker 4: let's be realistic. This is a regime that is the
Speaker 4: biggest exporter of terror in the world, that has four
Speaker 4: decades terrorized the Middle East, that is killed scores of Canadians,
Speaker 4: murdered scores of Canadians, tens of thousands of its own citizens,
Speaker 4: repressed women in its It has sought persistently and you
Speaker 4: will remember the JCPOA and all other efforts is sought
Speaker 4: persistently to obtain nuclear weapons. Nobody has a civil nuclear
Speaker 4: program that's buried a mile beneath the desert, So that
Speaker 4: is a threat. The exact timing of it, exact aspect
Speaker 4: of it. I'm not privy to all the information in
Speaker 4: terms of that. I would remind Elia that Canada was
Speaker 4: not consulted on these hostilities. We're not part of it.
Speaker 4: We're taking things from the position that they are today
Speaker 4: with the actual end in terms of the desirability of
Speaker 4: eliminating that nuclear threat and the capacity and exports state
Speaker 4: terror that we support. But we remind all the belligerents
Speaker 4: of their responsibilities tex civilians to protect civilian infrastructure, not
Speaker 4: target civilian infrastructure, and we call for de escalation of
Speaker 4: the conflict.
Speaker 14: Thanks for being here today, everyone, Banjouis to Lemon. I'd
Speaker 14: like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to our
Speaker 14: Global Affairs team at the Emergency Watch Response Center the eWRC.
Speaker 14: Here they have been working around the clock to help
Speaker 14: Canadians in the region, providing information to keep them safe.
Speaker 14: These are difficult times, these are volatile times, yet the
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Speaker 14: two thousand and thirty fives have contacted Global Affairs Camp
Speaker 14: for assistance with egress. I want to speak directly now
Speaker 14: to Canadians in the Middle East Golf region. Your government
Speaker 14: is with you, We are working hard for you, and
Speaker 14: we are arranging off for you to leave the region.
Speaker 14: I'm here today to explain what those are. Your safety
Speaker 14: and your well being are our top priority. Our government
Speaker 14: has developed options for Canadians seeking to leave the region.
Speaker 14: These options are threefold. One a limited number of chartered flights.
Speaker 14: Two block booking of seats on commercial flights. Three ground
Speaker 14: transportations certain cases where it is safe. This morning for
Speaker 14: them consured that seventy five people departed from Beirute on
Speaker 14: a commercial flight with seats that we reserved. Another two
Speaker 14: hundred seats happened over the next three days. Four people
Speaker 14: who wish to leave Beirute. As you can see behind me.
Speaker 14: More than one hundred thousand people across fifteen affected countries
Speaker 14: have registered with Global Affairs in order to receive the
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Speaker 14: leave the region. We send information about assistance being offered
Speaker 14: two registered Canadians directly. I will now summarize the government's
Speaker 14: response in the five countries with the most request for
Speaker 14: assistance from Canadians, comprising almost eighty cent of all requests.
Speaker 14: The countries are United Arab Emirates, Cutter, Lebanon, Israel, and Iran,
Speaker 14: starting first with the UAE. For the UAE, as of
Speaker 14: this morning, eleven hundred and seventy one Canadians have requested
Speaker 14: assistance in leaving out of a total of nearly thirty
Speaker 14: thousand registered Canadians in the UAE. Airspace in the UAE
Speaker 14: is only partially open and limited commercial flights are available.
Speaker 14: This afternoon, I directed my officials to enter into contracts
Speaker 14: to charter flight four Canadians. This charter is contingent upon
Speaker 14: receipting the necessary approval from to use their airspace, which
Speaker 14: we have all read requested and I personally am involved
Speaker 14: in these requests at a diplomatic level. Flights will be
Speaker 14: available on a cost recovery basis to Canadians and the
Speaker 14: number of flights will be to demand. Moving now to
Speaker 14: block bookings, we are also working with the airlines to
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Speaker 14: Moving now to the third type of arrangements that we
Speaker 14: are putting into place, land transportation. The same time, we
Speaker 14: are engaging land transportation options to bring Canadians to neighboring
Speaker 14: airports offering more commercial options. Moving now to Cutter In
Speaker 14: Cutter two hundred and thirty seven, Canadians have requested assistance
Speaker 14: in leaving out of nine thousand, three hundred and forty
Speaker 14: two registered Canadians. Airspace in Cutter is closed and there
Speaker 14: are currently no options to fly in or out. Cutter.
Speaker 14: Airlines is arranging bus transportation for two hundred Canadians with
Speaker 14: existing tickets to an airport in Saudi Arabia for a
Speaker 14: flight out from there. We are engaging ground transportation for
Speaker 14: other Canadians also wishing to leave quickly. I do want
Speaker 14: to point out that any ground transportation carries risk transport
Speaker 14: Canadian quits utrois de place monarre comparte de risk, and
Speaker 14: that such a hotel while missiles are flying overhead is terrifying.
Speaker 14: It is, however, often the safer option. While we have
Speaker 14: no indication of roads being targeted by Iranian missiles, when
Speaker 14: they are intercepted overhead, debris can fall on the road below.
Speaker 14: Canadians should, no matter which country they are in, only
Speaker 14: travel when it is safe to do so and follow
Speaker 14: local vice.
Speaker 1: Turning now to Lebanon.
Speaker 14: In Lebanon, approximately one hundred and sixty four Canadians have
Speaker 14: asked for assistants in departing out of over twenty three
Speaker 14: thousand people who have registered with our Rocca system. As mentioned,
Speaker 14: seventy fuck people were on a commercial flight this morning
Speaker 14: using seats that were set aside for Canadians to reserve themselves.
Speaker 14: Two hundred more such seats are available over the course
Speaker 14: of the next three days. Turning now to Israel, ninety
Speaker 14: three Canadians have requested assistance in departing out of over
Speaker 14: six thousand Canadians who have registered with our ROCCA system.
Speaker 14: Airspace there remains closed and flights are not an option
Speaker 14: for the moment. The government of Israel is operating a
Speaker 14: bus service to Egypt where passengers can arrange onwards travel
Speaker 14: to airports that are open.
Speaker 1: And operating normally.
Speaker 14: This service is working well and Canadians are being permitted
Speaker 14: with the details so that they can avail themselves of it.
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Speaker 14: The almost three thousand Canadians in Iran who have registered,
Speaker 14: seventy four have requested assistance in leaving. Unfortunately, we have
Speaker 14: no ability to arrange ground transportation in Iran as we
Speaker 14: do not have diplomatic relations with Iran and we have
Speaker 14: declared they are g as a terrorists entity under Canadian law.
Speaker 14: We have, however, stationed additional consular officials in neighboring countries Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Speaker 14: Irial Jordan, Turkia and Turkmenistan who can meet Canadians who
Speaker 14: cross the border and assist them with visa requirement and
Speaker 14: with arranging onward travel. Please only attempt to drive to
Speaker 14: the border when it is safe to do so. The
Speaker 14: situation throughout the region remains volatile and unpredictable. That is,
Speaker 14: we have a team here at DHAK working twenty four
Speaker 14: to seven to provide updates to Canadians who.
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Speaker 14: to ensure that we will work together at ours.
Speaker 1: Terms.
Speaker 14: Specifically, we have agreed to assist one another in terms
Speaker 14: of extending access capacity on our respective travel arrangements to
Speaker 14: citizens of our countries. We will continue to provide updates
Speaker 14: as the situation evolves.
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Speaker 14: The key upshot of this update is that we have
Speaker 14: three specific options that we are sourcing for Canadians. One
Speaker 14: is chartered flights, two is blocked bookings. Three is land transportation.
Speaker 14: The availability of those options will largely depend on the
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Speaker 14: and for example, if we are able to travel or
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Speaker 16: mentioned that Canada is working with other countries trying to coordinate.
Speaker 16: Can you give me a sense of how that works?
Speaker 16: Is it will other countries free up seats, will we
Speaker 16: free up seats? And we hear that other nations are
Speaker 16: able to get their citizens out of Oman, but we
Speaker 16: are not.
Speaker 1: Able to do so.
Speaker 2: Why is that so right now?
Speaker 14: In answer to the first part of your question, my
Speaker 14: specific conversations with the Foreign ministers of Australia and the
Speaker 14: United Kingdom are based on this reciprocal offer that we
Speaker 14: have to each other to assist citizens with travel arrangements.
Speaker 14: If there are space, there is space on their flights
Speaker 14: or their other forms of transportation. And this, in fact
Speaker 14: is reciprocal work that we put in place routinely with
Speaker 14: other like minded countries and is quite commonplace.
Speaker 1: So, in other words, the.
Speaker 14: Way it works is if they're a space on their
Speaker 14: planes and their Canadians who want to leave the region,
Speaker 14: then they will offer that spit up and we will
Speaker 14: do the same. So, for example, in the flight that
Speaker 14: we had blocked book today leaving from Beirut, we blocked
Speaker 14: book seventy five seats for Canadians. Not all of them
Speaker 14: were filled by Canadians because we didn't have the full
Speaker 14: compliment who wanted to leave at the time, and so
Speaker 14: we were able to offer those seats up. And those
Speaker 14: countries are doing the exact same thing with us.
Speaker 16: You mentioned that it is safer in a hotel than
Speaker 16: on the roads, and that you have not had any
Speaker 16: indication that the Iranians are bombing roads. Do you have
Speaker 16: any assurances from the US or Israel that they are
Speaker 16: also not bombing roads, in particular since in Iran many
Speaker 16: people are trying to flee via cars.
Speaker 1: To be clear, the.
Speaker 14: Situation is volatile and unpredictable, and the assurances that you're
Speaker 14: referring to in your question are not ones that we
Speaker 14: are utilizing to guide any of this advice. The advice
Speaker 14: is to register with the ROCCA system so that we
Speaker 14: can tailor the advice to the particular country in which
Speaker 14: Canadians are finding themselves. This situation is changing by the hour.
Speaker 14: It's extremely volatile and as you can see from the
Speaker 14: map behind me, it covers a vast geographical region. And
Speaker 14: so again, sheltering in place is the general advice across
Speaker 14: the board, and if Canadians wish to leave, we are
Speaker 14: putting in place options for them to do so, and
Speaker 14: those options are tailored to the particular country and are
Speaker 14: based to some extent on whether that country has open
Speaker 14: air space by which flights can lead the region.
Speaker 1: Thank you him, Minister Jillian Piper with Global News.
Speaker 17: You mentioned that the government book seventy five seats blocked
Speaker 17: them off, but they weren't all filled by Canadians. How
Speaker 17: many of those seats were filled by Canadians.
Speaker 14: I'll have to get back to you the exact number.
Speaker 14: The vast majority of those were taken by Canadians. As
Speaker 14: I said, in Lebanon itself, we have had a number
Speaker 14: of Canadians indicating that they do want to leave the region.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to get the numbers for you.
Speaker 14: Again in terms of In terms of Lebanon, so one
Speaker 14: hundred and sixty four Canadians have asked for assistance in departing.
Speaker 14: Out of twenty three thousand, seven hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 14: people who have registered with our ROCA system in Lebanon,
Speaker 14: seventy five people were on a commercial flight. Most of
Speaker 14: those people were Canadians. Two hundred more seats are available
Speaker 14: over the course of the next three days. In other words,
Speaker 14: we are making sure that all Canadians who wish to
Speaker 14: leave have an option to do so, and can do
Speaker 14: so on a car cost recovery basis.
Speaker 17: Do you have any assurances from allies that airspace will
Speaker 17: remain open in countries where you're considering charter flights or
Speaker 17: where you're considering booking a block seats.
Speaker 14: So, as I said, the situation is volatile and is
Speaker 14: changing by the hour, And in some countries the airspace
Speaker 14: is open, in others it is partially open, and still
Speaker 14: others it is fully closed. And so our ROCA system
Speaker 14: is tailoring the advice to the particular viability of the
Speaker 14: airspace in the country under discussion. Again, this underlines the
Speaker 14: importance of the ROCA system and registering. We've seen an
Speaker 14: increase in our ROCA numbers, the reason being that the
Speaker 14: advice is tailored to specific countries and is changing.
Speaker 1: Frequently.
Speaker 6: Good Evening, Minister Sam Forster, Canadian Affairs. On February twentieth,
Speaker 6: your Parliamentary Secretary Rob Oliphant stated, and I'll quote Minister
Speaker 6: and end has been very clear that we do not
Speaker 6: support an American strike, very clear, and that is the
Speaker 6: Canadian position. We do not believe in non un sanctioned
Speaker 6: military action.
Speaker 2: We don't do that.
Speaker 6: On February twenty eighth, the day that this military incursion began,
Speaker 6: Prime Minister Kearney released a statement broadly in support of
Speaker 6: the strikes. Was mister Oliphant correct on February twentieth when
Speaker 6: he made those remarks, and if so, how do you
Speaker 6: explain that reverse?
Speaker 14: I was not aware that he made those remarks, And
Speaker 14: our position was confirmed by Prime Minister Carney in his
Speaker 14: remarks yesterday from Australia, as well as in the statement
Speaker 14: that he issued on Saturday and again yesterday.
Speaker 6: When was the last time you spoke with Secretary of
Speaker 6: State Marco Rubio and can you share anything about those conversations.
Speaker 2: I was in Mumbai.
Speaker 1: It was three thirty a m Mumbai time.
Speaker 14: A G seven phone call occurred and Secretary of Rubio
Speaker 14: and my other G seven counterparts were on the line.
Speaker 1: That faces Marco Rubio sete Mumbai.
Speaker 11: Last question, Sorry less Paci with the UH. There are
Speaker 11: Canadians in the Middle East who are desperate for Canada
Speaker 11: to be doing more. Your official say that it's it's
Speaker 11: more efficient to use commercial options, but our allies are
Speaker 11: setting chartered claims. Why can they do this?
Speaker 14: But actually I don't accept the frame of your question
Speaker 14: at all. We have two thousand and thirty five Canadians
Speaker 14: who have requested assistance out of one hundred and six
Speaker 14: thousand Canadians who have registered. In each of the countries
Speaker 14: in which Canadians are requesting help, we are providing chartered flights,
Speaker 14: block booking of seats on commercial airlines, or exploring land transportation.
Speaker 14: We've been at this four days to ensure that we
Speaker 14: have options in place for Canadians. We are also working
Speaker 14: with our allies to ensure that there's this reciprocal arrangement
Speaker 14: between countries. In addition, I have been working with a
Speaker 14: number of my counterparts it's in Middle East and Gulf
Speaker 14: countries to ensure that if Canadians wish to transfer over land,
Speaker 14: that our Surge officials from Global Affairs who are in
Speaker 14: place in those countries will be able to assist with
Speaker 14: the land crossings life in Turkmenistan and al Zarbaijan and
Speaker 14: Armenia and TURKEYA and I've spoken with each of the
Speaker 14: foreign ministers in those countries to ensure that they will
Speaker 14: allow our GAK officials to be in country and to
Speaker 14: help Canadians. Finally, in addition to the first two items
Speaker 14: I mentioned flights chartered in block bookings as well as
Speaker 14: land transportation, ensuring assistance at borders by having Surged GHAK
Speaker 14: support in place, I will also point to my continued
Speaker 14: conversations with my counterparts in the Gulf region in the
Speaker 14: Middle East, where I am specifically requesting that Canadians can
Speaker 14: lead their countries by any means possible. I spoke with
Speaker 14: the Foreign Minister of Oman, for example, yesterday regarding Oman airspace.
Speaker 14: I've also been in contact with my counterpart from the
Speaker 14: UAE on the same question. So the key point, and
Speaker 14: the summary of my answer is that we have a
Speaker 14: number of avenues that we are working hard to ensure
Speaker 14: that those two thousand and thirty five Canadians can indeed
Speaker 14: leave the region.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your question.
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