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Speaker 1: next episode, what we are going to hear and discuss, Well,
Speaker 1: we're still kind of stuck on the Donald Trump thing,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna hear comments from Melanie Jolie
Speaker 1: about showing up borders as as anyone in the world
Speaker 1: knows that the longest and most unprotected border between countries
Speaker 1: in the world is between the US and Canada. Well,
Speaker 1: and that because is there because of kind of a
Speaker 1: symbiotic kind of relationship to Canada and the United States
Speaker 1: actually have. Well, mister Trump wants to wants to kind
Speaker 1: of end that relationship. He wants he wants more protection
Speaker 1: across that border, and he wants Canada to actually pay
Speaker 1: for that protection to be there. He wants to ensure
Speaker 1: that there will be no illegal drugs, there will be
Speaker 1: no illegal immigrants, which there is virtually none of matter
Speaker 1: of fact, if the illegal drugs crossing that border actually
Speaker 1: come from the United States into Canada, I know that
Speaker 1: if I go to a certain point in near where
Speaker 1: I live, that I can watch what. I don't even
Speaker 1: need binoculars to see them dropping the illegal fitanol, cocaine,
Speaker 1: whatever the substance is into the water just south the
Speaker 1: beach and see another little boat go out and bring
Speaker 1: it back into Canada. In which case we hear about
Speaker 1: in Surrey, BC, these large seizures of weapon caches and
Speaker 1: illegal drugs that actually were smuggled in from the United
Speaker 1: States into Canada, not the other way around. Mister Trump
Speaker 1: needs to actually get his facts straight. He needs to
Speaker 1: actually get his figures correct, because he would find that
Speaker 1: he's more of a detriment to Canada than Canada is
Speaker 1: to the United States. Anyway, we're going to continue and
Speaker 1: we're going to listen to what Jolie and has to say,
Speaker 1: because what she is trying to do is circumvent or
Speaker 1: prevent terrorists from happening. And she's she's going at this
Speaker 1: as as a diplomat, which she is a great diplomat.
Speaker 1: She knows what she's doing. When when with diplomacy, she
Speaker 1: knows how to negotiate with political and government officials, well,
Speaker 1: there's where the problem begins. When dealing with Donald Trump
Speaker 1: because he's neither of those. He may be sitting in
Speaker 1: the seat of the president of the United States, he
Speaker 1: may be in the oval office, but he knows he
Speaker 1: knows nothing about diplomacy, and he knows nothing about truly
Speaker 1: running a government. He knows nothing about compassion for people.
Speaker 1: All he knows is I want my way, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do whatever it takes to get my way.
Speaker 1: And trying to deal with him on a as as
Speaker 1: a reasonable person is probably gonna be a mistake. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear comments from from Melanie Jolie as she's
Speaker 1: also talking about trying to circumvent mister Trump by using
Speaker 1: the fact that each and every governor has power to
Speaker 1: either accept or deny what the federal government is actually doing.
Speaker 1: When when it comes to dealing with with uh with
Speaker 1: sources from outside the country, they have the right to
Speaker 1: to circumvent the tariff at at a state level when
Speaker 1: the products alive arrive into their particular state. So there
Speaker 1: she is actually trying to deal with with some things
Speaker 1: that way. Also, she is also trying to deal with
Speaker 1: homeland security and the fact that they want to keep
Speaker 1: that border between the US and Canada demilitarize. They don't
Speaker 1: want to see a lot of military action or any
Speaker 1: of those sort of things happen on that border. One
Speaker 1: parts of that border, uh is is deep inside of
Speaker 1: forested areas and make making it very hard to to
Speaker 1: to use human beings to patrol the area. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of electronic devices and things like that to
Speaker 1: actually monitor what is happening along that border, and if
Speaker 1: you do something illegal along along there, it does actually
Speaker 1: come up on either side of that there would be
Speaker 1: trouble on the way. So it isn't an unprotected It
Speaker 1: is a demilitarized border, but it is not an unprotected border.
Speaker 1: And that is the thing to remember is that there
Speaker 1: are a lot of devices, satellites and things like that
Speaker 1: that are actually monitoring that border and keeping it under control.
Speaker 1: So we're also going to hear from the Green Party
Speaker 1: as there is a co leadership situation happening there. Elizabeth
Speaker 1: May and Jonathan Pernall are going to co lead the
Speaker 1: Green Party and they have a lot of initiatives that
Speaker 1: would protect our environment as well as increase our commerce
Speaker 1: so that hey, Canada becomes the country it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be the Canada of Great Commerce, the Canada of great compassion,
Speaker 1: the Canada of great environment, the Canada that looks out
Speaker 1: for every life that is on our planet. So with that,
Speaker 1: why don't we start with Melanie Jolie and then we
Speaker 1: will eventually lead into Elizabeth May and Jonathan and as
Speaker 1: they talk about the Green Party and its future. And
Speaker 1: as a sidebar, we're actually going to hear from Ontario
Speaker 1: where they are talking about new healthcare amendments it and
Speaker 1: how their healthcare system is not leaving anyone behind.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, San David McGuinty. So we just came out
Speaker 2: of another very important Canada US meeting UH and our
Speaker 2: two objectives were the same. First to work on preventing
Speaker 2: tariffs and second working also on our response should there
Speaker 2: be tariffs. When it comes to the first point on
Speaker 2: preventing tariffs, first and foremost, our objective is to make
Speaker 2: sure that we prevent tariffs and we believe that we
Speaker 2: can do so. How can we do so? We will
Speaker 2: continue to engage with our different American counterparts. I'll be
Speaker 2: heading to Washington to meet Marco Rubio on Wednesday, and
Speaker 2: also I'll be in contact and I've been in contact
Speaker 2: with Tom Holman, the borders are of President Trump. David
Speaker 2: and I are having conversations with Tom Holman shortly, and
Speaker 2: we know that President Trump has been referring a lot
Speaker 2: to the border. Again, we have a very good border plan.
Speaker 2: It is being implemented, and David will be able to
Speaker 2: talk to you about the latest on this front. When
Speaker 2: it comes to our trade relationship, also, of course, we
Speaker 2: know that the US has a surplus with US if
Speaker 2: we don't take into account our energy exports, which are
Speaker 2: driven by the US demand. So at this point, the
Speaker 2: trade surplus that the US has with US is around
Speaker 2: sixty billion dollars, which includes goods and services. We are
Speaker 2: the largest export market for thirty six states of the
Speaker 2: United States, and we're still the biggest customer to the US.
Speaker 2: So Canada is the biggest customer to the US. So
Speaker 2: that's for the first point, which is preventing tariffs. When
Speaker 2: it comes to the second point of our response, we
Speaker 2: will be ready for day one, and we've been saying
Speaker 2: that and we are ready. I'll be talking this week
Speaker 2: to the British Foreign Minister. I'll be also talking to
Speaker 2: key European foreign ministers. I've been in constant contact with.
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Speaker 4: Cool Good morning everyone. So our objective, as the Minister
Speaker 4: has just said, is to prevent any kind of tariffs
Speaker 4: forthcoming from the United States administration, and so we're working
Speaker 4: very hard. Of course, in my case, on the question
Speaker 4: of a border, it's important for Canadians to understand a
Speaker 4: few things about the border we have with the United States.
Speaker 4: The first thing to keep in mind is it's a
Speaker 4: very strong border. It's one that's evolved over one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty years of relationship. It remains the longest undefended
Speaker 4: border in the world, and we intend to try to
Speaker 4: keep it that way. I think our American colleagues share
Speaker 4: the same view. The plan that we are implementing is multifaceted.
Speaker 4: It involves political outreach, official outreach, and operational outreach. So
Speaker 4: clearly I'll be meeting with eventually, for example, the new
Speaker 4: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Msnome. We'll be talking to
Speaker 4: Tom Holman, we expect this week. At the same time,
Speaker 4: we have officials who are in and out of Washington,
Speaker 4: DC working with our American counterparts and operationally, the CBSA
Speaker 4: and the RCNP are in const in touch with their
Speaker 4: counterpart organizations in the United States, so we're making huge progress.
Speaker 4: This plan is a plan which is of course international
Speaker 4: between Canada the United States, but it's also a plan
Speaker 4: between different orders of government in this country. We've reached
Speaker 4: out to and engaged every single province in the country.
Speaker 4: They are engaged. In the case of Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Speaker 4: and Quebec. They're making for example, some of their police
Speaker 4: authorities available, police of local jurisdiction are helping us on
Speaker 4: the border. This is a very very good thing and
Speaker 4: they should be commended for doing so because it really
Speaker 4: is a team Canada response. We're working, for example, on
Speaker 4: the question of fentanyl. It's important for Canadians to remember
Speaker 4: less than one percent of all fentanyl entering the United
Speaker 4: States is coming from Canada. Less than one percent of
Speaker 4: illegal immigration in the United States is coming from Canada.
Speaker 4: So we are tightening up even further our border to
Speaker 4: deal with some of these challenges. And as I say,
Speaker 4: it's a federal provincial relationship and partnership, it's an inter
Speaker 4: agency partnership, it's a bilateral partnership, and we've seen huge
Speaker 4: progress in the last three to four months. So we
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Speaker 3: Reginelle. They put the Algonquin and Anishnavik. We're on the
Speaker 3: traditional territory of the Algonquin and Asnavic people, and we
Speaker 3: express our gratitude for their generosity and patience, Meg which
Speaker 3: monnance Elizabeth Major's relationship to Pati Velle Canada some men
Speaker 3: extra PONU. Of course I planned this when I thought
Speaker 3: January twenty seventh was the day Parliament would be resuming.
Speaker 3: What a good time to be sure that we'd finalized
Speaker 3: our election platform by having an in person retreat with
Speaker 3: the shadow Cabinet that I've been working with for years
Speaker 3: and a lot of people. This is our first time
Speaker 3: in person since before COVID, so for a lot of
Speaker 3: people is the first time they met with each other.
Speaker 3: In order of what we're going to do today, I
Speaker 3: also want to stop and pause to recognize that this
Speaker 3: is the eightieth anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz International
Speaker 3: Holocaust Remembrance Day, and for all those who still grieve
Speaker 3: the show awareness of monstrous genocide should not be forgotten
Speaker 3: and when we say never again, we really should mean it. Oh. So,
Speaker 3: January twenty seventh, the Deparliament was supposed to resume with
Speaker 3: lots of bills, lots of work to do. We're going
Speaker 3: to reflect on the work that didn't get done. And
Speaker 3: Mike Morris MP for Kitchener Center will present that part
Speaker 3: of our reflections. But first I want to introduce someone
Speaker 3: you don't know it all as she's the nominated candidate
Speaker 3: for the Green Party of Canada in North Island Powell River,
Speaker 3: and she was nominated by the group to sort be
Speaker 3: our spokesperson for how the weekend went and what it
Speaker 3: was like to all be together. Jessica Wegg is a
Speaker 3: lawyer in Comoc's Bcie.
Speaker 7: Thanks Lisa, Good morning everyone. We are weeks away from
Speaker 7: the most important election in our nation's history, and our
Speaker 7: future is on the line. So over the weekend, Green
Speaker 7: Shadow Cabinet members met from all over the country to
Speaker 7: identify solutions to the key problems facing Canadians, housing, affordability,
Speaker 7: the threat of climate change, and our relationship with our
Speaker 7: southern neighbors. And we really look forward to sharing these
Speaker 7: proposals with Canadians in the coming weeks. But let me
Speaker 7: be clear, this is a new, reinvigorated Green Party and
Speaker 7: you can expect bold, decisively progressive proposals from us.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, yeah, thank And a lot of
Speaker 3: our shadow cabinet members couldn't make it in person, particularly
Speaker 3: those who are preparing for now. What Doug Ford has
Speaker 3: in mind and Ontario elections. Vcularly want to single out
Speaker 3: our health critic who couldn't make it, Doctor add Marie Zeglik.
Speaker 3: She is one of the pioneering physicians in Canada and
Speaker 3: certainly in Ontario on HIV AIDS. She is a nominated
Speaker 3: candidate in Gwelph. You'll certainly get to see more of
Speaker 3: her because she is I think quite likely to be
Speaker 3: the next member of Parliament from Guelph. Gwelph is, of
Speaker 3: course the home riding for the valiant and most effective
Speaker 3: opposition leader in Queen's Park Leader of the Green Party
Speaker 3: of Ontario, Mike Schriner. So we like having double Green ridings.
Speaker 3: There are several across the country, and so at this
Speaker 3: moment I want to turn to Mike Morris for his
Speaker 3: reflections on what didn't get done the last time I
Speaker 3: gave a press conference January third. The world changed a
Speaker 3: lot for people in politics on January sixth, said Simon
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Speaker 8: Mike Morris, well, thank you Elizabeth.
Speaker 9: Wonderful to see you all this morning, and wonderful to
Speaker 9: be joined by Shadow Cabinet. As Elizabeth shared, while Parliament
Speaker 9: is prorogued, the Green Caucus is continuing to work on
Speaker 9: behalf of Canadians and behalf of our communities to get results,
Speaker 9: notwithstanding those parliamentary tools that are not available to us.
Speaker 9: As one example, the disability community continues to call to
Speaker 9: guarantee that the Canada Disability Benefit will be delivered as
Speaker 9: this government promised in Budget twenty twenty four by July first.
Speaker 9: That means they must finalize the regulations before March seventh
Speaker 9: to ensure the regardless of the partisan theatrics of the day,
Speaker 9: that the disability community deserves to see not only a fixed,
Speaker 9: but a fully funded Canada disability bendun passible. That's why
Speaker 9: Elizabeth and I wrote the Minister Responsible last week calling
Speaker 9: for her to ensure that this government guarantees the Candida
Speaker 9: Disability Benefit. We'll be meeting with her office later this
Speaker 9: afternoon to lift up the calls of the disability community, continuing,
Speaker 9: as I shared, to call to fix the Candida Disability
Speaker 9: Benefit and in the meantime, at the very least to
Speaker 9: ensure that they guarantee that the meager version of the
Speaker 9: benefit previously announced is delivered, regardless of the theatrics of
Speaker 9: the day on this and so many others, whether it's
Speaker 9: related to the housing crisis, the climate. Both Elizabeth and
Speaker 9: I are continuing to work on behalf of our communities
Speaker 9: and will continue to do so until an election is called.
Speaker 3: Thank you, And following on from what Mike ha said,
Speaker 3: And I feel really guilty not introducing all of our
Speaker 3: wonderful greens from across the country, but it would take
Speaker 3: too long. I know you understand, but we have candidates
Speaker 3: and critics here right across the board, just like Trudeau's cabinet. Well,
Speaker 3: I think we get along better, but anyway, we're really
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of having people here from Prince Edward Island,
Speaker 3: doctor Stratton, Gadfi Stratton, fisheries critic from Nova Scotia all
Speaker 3: the way through to British Columbia. And my husband's going
Speaker 3: to run in what used to be Mission maps we
Speaker 3: Phraser Canyon, but it's been redistributed. But if I started
Speaker 3: introducing people, it'll take too long. I did want to
Speaker 3: say apropos of Mike's comment that we keep working. The
Speaker 3: day after House Perogue, I wrote to Justin Trudeau and
Speaker 3: all the other opposition party leaders Pierre Puallev and Ifro
Speaker 3: Solbaschet and Jack me singing and said, look, bills just
Speaker 3: died that we'd spent. I mean the equivalent of millions
Speaker 3: of dollars of work, both within departments, by parliament by
Speaker 3: standing committees. A lot of these bills have gone through
Speaker 3: clause by clause amendments, bills that were so close to passage.
Speaker 3: For my community, Bill C thirty three that would help
Speaker 3: us deal with freighters getting free parking in the Salish
Speaker 3: Sea and dragging anchors and threatening the survival of Southern
Speaker 3: resident killer whales. If Bill C thirty three could be
Speaker 3: singled out as having enough cross party support to get
Speaker 3: passed quickly when the House resumes C. Seventy one to
Speaker 3: fix the lost citizenship issue ready to go, a lot
Speaker 3: of cross party support could exist. I've asked the other
Speaker 3: party leaders to meet during this time that we have.
Speaker 3: We got to meet on December third to talk about
Speaker 3: the Trump threat. Well, we should be meeting again, but
Speaker 3: in any case, no one's answered my letter yet. If
Speaker 3: anyone was wondering all of that said, we do have
Speaker 3: an announcement to make, and you might have noticed, I'm
Speaker 3: very pleased to be joined once again, and as you Dona,
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Speaker 8: back with the amazing bunch of people behind me. They're
Speaker 8: top notch committed individuals fighting for a better Canada. And
Speaker 8: I couldn't be more humbled to stand here now with
Speaker 8: my friend Mike, and with a mentor a friend, this
Speaker 8: incredible national treasure that Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: May is.
Speaker 8: Well. I did leave politics and now I'm back, and
Speaker 8: some of you might wonder why. Last year, early in
Speaker 8: the year, I did receive some fairly difficult life altering
Speaker 8: news about my health, something that's as a thirty four
Speaker 8: year old was somewhat difficult to reckon with, and even
Speaker 8: though I tried to keep going, at some point it
Speaker 8: became very clear to me that I needed to take
Speaker 8: a bit of a step back and reflect about my
Speaker 8: place not only in the world and in politics, but
Speaker 8: also about I could be slightly kinder to myself after
Speaker 8: fourteen fifteen years in conflict areas some fairly difficult work,
Speaker 8: and so I took a step back. I needed that
Speaker 8: to reflect. In the fall of last year, I was
Speaker 8: lucky enough to be prompted thrown back into the work
Speaker 8: that I did for many, many years in conflict areas,
Speaker 8: work that then led me in the fall and the
Speaker 8: winter of twenty twenty four and places like Georgia and
Speaker 8: Syria to places where people are fighting and have been
Speaker 8: fighting for democracy and freedom, two values that I think
Speaker 8: we oftentimes take for granted as Canadians, to core treasures
Speaker 8: that are founding fathers and mothers have been building in
Speaker 8: this country, to values that are now under threat, and
Speaker 8: that of course, was with every single time passed in
Speaker 8: those places, always a bit of a reckoning about whether
Speaker 8: I was actually in the right place now. Of course,
Speaker 8: the tragic, in fact despicable election south of the border
Speaker 8: of a president that is a sewaging fascism and creating
Speaker 8: right south of the border, a threat to our way
Speaker 8: of living, to our values, meant that I simply couldn't
Speaker 8: stand on the sidelines anymore. The situation we're in is
Speaker 8: a situation I've seen many other peoples throughout the planet,
Speaker 8: from Venezuela to Cuba to Ukraine and other countries that
Speaker 8: are far less privileged, or have been far less privileged
Speaker 8: in Canada has been Those are situations that I'm well
Speaker 8: accustomed with, Situations where populist leaders or threats from outside
Speaker 8: start to grow, and where independence, our way of life
Speaker 8: comes under threat. These are difficult times to reckon with,
Speaker 8: and with fourteen years spent in conflict areas, I thought
Speaker 8: that here was something that I could bring back to politics.
Speaker 8: As someone who's been to the front lines, as someone
Speaker 8: who spent time speaking with people tortured, with mothers having
Speaker 8: lost their children, I do know what that reality looks
Speaker 8: like in practice, and it is one that we will,
Speaker 8: as Greens, do everything in our power to avoid. So
Speaker 8: I was extremely, extremely glad when the party reached out
Speaker 8: to me and asked me to come back to assume,
Speaker 8: pending a vote by the members, the position of co
Speaker 8: Leader for the Green Party of Canada.
Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 8: call on all of us to really stand up for Canada,
Speaker 8: and this is a responsibility that I will be assuming humbly,
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Speaker 10: When you last resigned, you spoke about internal roadblocks in
Speaker 10: the way of you becoming co leader. What happened to
Speaker 10: those roadblocks? Is it people that have resigned? Were they
Speaker 10: the roadblocks? There's been several resignations on the Federal Council,
Speaker 10: the party's Green Fund. Were those people the issue in
Speaker 10: standing in the way.
Speaker 8: There are always issues within every single party, lots of
Speaker 8: people that are committed to various strong positions and visions,
Speaker 8: and that's something that we welcome in the Green Party
Speaker 8: of Canada as opposed to something that we shy away
Speaker 8: from as other parties often do. My resignation, as I
Speaker 8: said several times during the press conference, was for personal reasons.
Speaker 8: I am not going to use this opportunity right now
Speaker 8: to discuss my health situation more. But this is something
Speaker 8: that I will absolutely be doing in the weeks and
Speaker 8: months ahead. Stack Lillipok is Upsta only the absurd on
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Speaker 3: I just added. There was the times that in the
Speaker 3: media things that are for us as green as normal.
Speaker 3: It takes time. When you have a grassroots party and
Speaker 3: you work through, you have to have a general meeting.
Speaker 3: The members are the highest authority in our party. We
Speaker 3: couldn't decree this color. It needed a meeting of members.
Speaker 3: We'd had a couple of meetings where simply ran out
Speaker 3: of time. To deal with all the resolutions before us.
Speaker 3: So the meeting of members as planned and as Jonathan said,
Speaker 3: with phenomenal support, happened in mid November, and we are
Speaker 3: following the rules of the party. And I didn't ever
Speaker 3: say they were obstacles. I know people read that into it,
Speaker 3: wanted to make more out of it. As a Jonathan said,
Speaker 3: we repeated many times in a very emotional press conference,
Speaker 3: especially for me because I really hated to see him leave.
Speaker 3: But it was personal reasons and as Jonathan is explained,
Speaker 3: he'll give you more details on that is one of
Speaker 3: the times right exacts.
Speaker 8: What do you think?
Speaker 3: What do you think the impact of party in fighting
Speaker 3: has been on the Green Party's successes in recent years?
Speaker 3: Has it affected of electoral success?
Speaker 8: Once again? The most important thing I can tell you
Speaker 8: today is that, as is evidenced by the people behind us,
Speaker 8: we are united and committed to delivering for Canadians at
Speaker 8: a time when they're are no progressive alternatives out there.
Speaker 8: We will provide decisively, boldly progressive proposals for Canadians. I
Speaker 8: think Canadians struggle so much right now in their daily lives,
Speaker 8: in their daily well in the outcome when it comes
Speaker 8: to the climate emergency, our relationship with our neighbors to
Speaker 8: the south, with the cost of living situation. Those are
Speaker 8: the things that we are focused on and those are
Speaker 8: the most important things for Greens right now.
Speaker 5: Well, good morning everyone. I'm excited to be able to
Speaker 5: join you alongside doctor Jane Philpott, chair of Ontario's Primary
Speaker 5: Care Action Team, which our governments established in the fall,
Speaker 5: to share an update on the team's progress and the
Speaker 5: work that they have been doing to connect every person
Speaker 5: in Ontario to a publicly funded primary care team by
Speaker 5: twenty twenty nine. Under the leadership of Premier Forward, our
Speaker 5: government has been making record investments in healthcare, taking bold
Speaker 5: action and making innovative changes to connect people to the
Speaker 5: care they need, when and where they need it. We
Speaker 5: are expanding capacity, reducing weight times and waitlists, by improving
Speaker 5: access to key services such as primary care, diagnostic imaging,
Speaker 5: home care and hospital care in communities across Ontario, and
Speaker 5: taking action to maintain and expand Ontario's health care workforce.
Speaker 5: For a third year in a row, Ontario has added
Speaker 5: a record number of new nurses and new physicians, registering
Speaker 5: a total of one hundred thousand nurses and fifteen thousand
Speaker 5: physicians since twenty eighteen. Ontario leads the country with some
Speaker 5: of the shortest weight times for critical services, the largest
Speaker 5: physician and nurse practitioner workforce, the highest number of people
Speaker 5: with access to a regular healthcare provider, and we are
Speaker 5: not stopping there. Our government has launched the largest expansion
Speaker 5: of the medical school education system in over a decade,
Speaker 5: adding over three hundred and forty undergraduate and five hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty one residency spots and opening two new medical
Speaker 5: schools in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University and York University.
Speaker 5: We are creating new pathways to train more family doctors
Speaker 5: than ever before by expanding the Learn and Stay Grant
Speaker 5: to include family medicine and introducing the Practice Ready Ontario
Speaker 5: program to license internationally trained family docs more quickly. Together,
Speaker 5: these programs will add nearly fifteen hundred new family doctors
Speaker 5: and communities across the province over the next three years.
Speaker 5: And we have taken the first step in expanding interprofessional
Speaker 5: primary care teams, including family health teams and nurse practitioner
Speaker 5: led clinics, connecting nearly three hundred and thirty thousand more
Speaker 5: people to primary care in their community by creating or
Speaker 5: expanding seventy eight primary care teams, seventy two of which
Speaker 5: are now open and taking on new patients. To continue
Speaker 5: to move forward to close the remaining gap of people
Speaker 5: who do not have access to a regular healthcare provider
Speaker 5: and get across the finish line of connecting everyone in
Speaker 5: Ontario to more convenient primary care. I am pleased to
Speaker 5: announce our government is investing one point eight billion dollars
Speaker 5: to support the work of the Primary Care Action Team
Speaker 5: and their mandate to connect every person in Ontario to
Speaker 5: primary care by twenty twenty nine. Through this historic investment,
Speaker 5: Ontario's Primary Care Action Team, led by doctor Philbot, will
Speaker 5: implement an action plan that includes key initiatives and draws
Speaker 5: on best in class models of primary care being delivered
Speaker 5: across Ontario to ensure that no matter where you live
Speaker 5: in the province, you are connected to a publicly funded
Speaker 5: primary care team made up of family physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, midwives,
Speaker 5: and many other healthcare professionals. The work of the Primary
Speaker 5: Care Action Team is another important way our government is
Speaker 5: building on our progress to create a more connected and
Speaker 5: convenient healthcare system by providing more people with the right
Speaker 5: care in the right place for years to come. It's
Speaker 5: now my pleasure to invite doctor Philpot to share a
Speaker 5: few words and provide more details about Ontario's primary Care
Speaker 5: action plan. Thank you, stay well, thank you.
Speaker 6: Good morning everyone, and thank you very much, mister Jones.
Speaker 6: I am so pleased to be here today with you
Speaker 6: for this historic announcement. Central to the health and well
Speaker 6: being of every community is primary care. Primary Care is
Speaker 6: your first point of contact with the health system when
Speaker 6: you need medical care. It's where trust is built between
Speaker 6: patients and health care providers and where the foundation for
Speaker 6: long term health is established. Whether you're talking about preventing illness,
Speaker 6: managing chronic conditions, or providing continuity of care, primary care
Speaker 6: clinicians such as family doctors, nurse practitioners, etc. Play an
Speaker 6: essential role in keeping people healthy. And it's not just
Speaker 6: about improving health outcomes. It's about improving the quality of
Speaker 6: life and the quality of health care for people. It's
Speaker 6: about creating a primary care system that works for both
Speaker 6: the people of Ontario and our dedicated healthcare professionals. So
Speaker 6: that is why the Government of Ontare is announcing today
Speaker 6: an investment of one point eight billion dollars that will
Speaker 6: connect two million more people to family doctors, nurse practitioners
Speaker 6: and primary care teams by the year twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 6: build a primary care system that ensures it no matter
Speaker 6: where you live in this province, you can be connected
Speaker 6: to a primary care team made up of family doctors
Speaker 6: and nurse practitioners and other valued healthcare professionals such as nurses,
Speaker 6: physician assistants, social workers, pharmacists and many more. Through our
Speaker 6: Primary Care Action Plan, we are going to work with
Speaker 6: primary care clinicians, health system partners and communities to connect
Speaker 6: everyone to more convenient primary care by twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 6: Through the government's historic investment, we will be creating more
Speaker 6: than three hundred new and expanded primary care teams that
Speaker 6: will attach approximately two million people to primary care. This
Speaker 6: includes over two hundred and thirty five million dollars over
Speaker 6: this next fiscal year to establish and expand eighty additional
Speaker 6: primary care teams across the province, attaching three hundred thousand
Speaker 6: more people to care. As part of this work, we
Speaker 6: intend to connect everyone who is currently on the Healthcare
Speaker 6: Connect wait list as of January first this year to
Speaker 6: a primary care provider by the spring of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: We want to make the process of finding a primary
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Speaker 6: making improvements to Healthcare Connect to improve both the user
Speaker 6: and provider experience. As part of this we will work
Speaker 6: towards a Healthcare Connect weight time target of no more
Speaker 6: than twelve months to be connected to a primary care team.
Speaker 6: We also want to ensure that patients can access their
Speaker 6: healthcare at their fingertips. As part of our action plan,
Speaker 6: we will leverage Health eight one point one to allow
Speaker 6: you to view online your health records, to book an
Speaker 6: appointment with your primary care provider and discover your care options.
Speaker 6: We also, need, of course, to ensure that we are
Speaker 6: supporting our primary care clinicians. This means continuing to address
Speaker 6: the administrative burden with digital tools such as AI scribes,
Speaker 6: modernizing the ways of information sharing, and improving the referral
Speaker 6: process to specialists. We know there is a lot of
Speaker 6: work to do to recruit and retain the workforce needed
Speaker 6: to support primary care providers and their teams, including family doctors,
Speaker 6: nurse practitioners and other allied health professionals. This is just
Speaker 6: the beginning and there is much more work to do
Speaker 6: in collaboration with our partners in primary care. This includes
Speaker 6: regular reporting on the progress we've made to connect everyone
Speaker 6: to primary care. Ontario is embarking on an historic opportunity
Speaker 6: to build a primary care system where the guarantee of
Speaker 6: access to a primary care team is as automatic as
Speaker 6: a child being assigned to a public school in their community.
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Speaker 6: changes will not happen overnight, but when our shared vision
Speaker 6: is realized, we will have a primary care system in
Speaker 6: the province that has never existed before. Every person in Ontario,
Speaker 6: every baby, every child, teenager, parent, adults, seniors will have
Speaker 6: a family doctor or nurse practitioner when they need one
Speaker 6: and can get ongoing, comprehensive and convenient care. If you
Speaker 6: move with in Ontario, you will automatically be offered a
Speaker 6: primary care team in your community, ensuring continuous access to
Speaker 6: care close to home. You'll be welcomed at the door
Speaker 6: and there will be a team of amazing healthcare professionals
Speaker 6: working together to provide the high quality care that you deserve,
Speaker 6: ready for you when you and your loved ones need
Speaker 6: it at all stages of life. That's our shared vision
Speaker 6: and that is our commitment on this historic day. Thank
Speaker 6: you very much, Missipoku.
Speaker 9: We will now take questions from the media. If media
Speaker 9: present can kindly line up behind me and act ask
Speaker 9: their questions to their microphone. As a friendly reminder of
Speaker 9: the format is one question, one follow up.
Speaker 5: Please state your name and your outlook for your question.
Speaker 6: Wellion dollars are going outdoor today.
Speaker 5: This is a yahing pat proms right. We have now
Speaker 5: got a plan in place to build on what we
Speaker 5: already announced last February. You know when I talk about
Speaker 5: those seventy eight new or expanded primary care interprofessional teams
Speaker 5: that we announced in February of last year, we have
Speaker 5: seventy two of those in place now under doctor Philpot's leadership.
Speaker 5: We now have a plan for the remaining ten percent
Speaker 5: of Harriel's population that doesn't have a family physician, and
Speaker 5: that work starts today.
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