WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:18.559 Thank you for listening to Pictures Media Radio. Welcome to 2 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:23.920 Policy and Rights, the show about the government policy and 3 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:24.879 human rights. 4 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:08.439 I just visited a little incredibly innovative manufacturer here that 5 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.239 works for Tesla and others in some really high performing, 6 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:16.200 high quality manufacturing. But I talked to us also about 7 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.799 the fact that they are going to be impacted if 8 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:22.920 a shutdown of the rail system continues for much longer. 9 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.560 And that's something that is an impact right across the 10 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.599 country from workers to businesses, to farmers to consumers who 11 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.560 are going to be impacted. That's why we are on this. 12 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.719 We're taking it so seriously. The Minister is engaged directly. 13 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:40.920 We are not taking this lightly obviously because Canadians across 14 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.840 the country are worried about it. And we will have 15 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.400 more to say shortly on what we're doing to make 16 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.560 sure that the right solution is found quick well. 17 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.200 We made it very clear that we would always oppose 18 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.000 back to work legislation. I made that very clear to 19 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:56.920 Justin Shouldau. I looked him right in the eyesa said, 20 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.879 we will never support any back to work legislation. Never 21 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.079 count on us. We'll have to go to conservatives who 22 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.840 are the enemy of working people, you can go to yourself, 23 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.719 because we know that liberals have sold out working people 24 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.360 again and again with back to work legislation, forcing them 25 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:14.919 back to work, undermining their rights. So if that's the 26 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:16.479 path of liberals want to go, we're going to fight 27 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.319 them every step of the way. We made it very clear. 28 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.080 I said, whether it's confidence or not, I don't care. 29 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.120 We're going to vote against any measure that attacks working people. 30 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.439 Back to work binding arbitration will be voting against it. 31 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.680 We'll be fighting it every step of the way. I 32 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.520 made that abundantly clear to Justin Trudeau, and I make 33 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:38.479 that clear again today. 34 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.560 Welcome back to policy and rights here in Depictions Media Radio. 35 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:51.520 I'm your host Michael Clouds, and in today's episode, we're 36 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:56.400 going to hear a bunch of things, starting with the 37 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:03.560 railway shutdown. And you just heard two opposing sides into 38 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.199 short clips that we played ahead ahead of this, with 39 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.719 Justin Trudeau saying that the decision that was made for 40 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:19.120 UH binding arbitration between the Railways and the Teamster's Union 41 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:28.680 as enacted by Stephen McKinnon UH, the UH Labor Minister, 42 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:33.080 as we will hear from him in a press conference 43 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:40.120 in a little bit, that it is a a wonderful 44 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:43.520 and great thing and that it shows that the government 45 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.680 is willing to do what it takes to look out 46 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:53.800 for Canadians. On the flip side to that is of 47 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:03.240 course Jack Met saying that binding arbitration is in violation 48 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:09.840 of the rights of workers and only helps to protect 49 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:16.959 the corporations. So the long and short of it is 50 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:23.959 is that the majority of Canadians are looking for those 51 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.720 goods it would be transported back and forth via those railways, 52 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:35.199 and that we are also dependent on the economy, that 53 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:41.519 it that it brings to us that by cutting off 54 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.199 the railway, that we are also cutting off part of 55 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:51.360 part of our of our own economy. And with that 56 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:56.199 being said that in the end that I would think 57 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:01.639 that the larger corporations, because if it of increased inflation 58 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:11.720 and increase pricings to then to the consumer, that the 59 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:15.879 the longer the strike would last, the bigger benefit that 60 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:23.079 larger corporations would actually receive. Just my humble opinion. Okay, 61 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:28.959 so we're going to hear from Minister uh McKinnon about that, 62 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.399 and we already heard from just the party leaders for 63 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:43.600 the NDP and for the UH Liberal government via our 64 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:49.240 Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Uh what how polarized this situation 65 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:57.519 really is going to be where labor versus government is concerned. 66 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.759 So we're we are also going to hear today from 67 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:10.120 the Minister of Environment as they're gearing up for another 68 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:14.720 cop and this one is going to be We're going 69 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:20.199 to be focusing in on Columbia and there is going 70 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.519 to be a news conference there as they're talking about 71 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:29.399 the what I like to call climate evolution, which means 72 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:35.560 that the human factor means that we are part of 73 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.959 nature and that we are more on more or less 74 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:43.160 on the ride of what nature is going to hand us. 75 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:50.399 Then we are in control of nature. One of the 76 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.920 issues that I see with the whole idea of climate 77 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.680 change in the way it is being presented to us, 78 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:04.920 is that some government, some corporation it's going to come 79 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.399 up with the answer that it's going to save humanity. Well, 80 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.480 the fact of the matter is that at least the 81 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:18.839 way I see it is that if we scale back 82 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.800 on what we're buying, kind of end some of the 83 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:29.399 corporate greed and some of the corporate messages, Hey, if 84 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:33.800 you don't buy this product, you're not helping climate change, 85 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:41.120 that that's where the where the problem is really starting, 86 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:50.720 and that we don't need government officials and corporate leaders 87 00:07:50.959 --> 00:08:00.160 racing around in their jets to save humanity. There's it's 88 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:04.680 kind of there's just something fundamentally wrong with that, Okay, 89 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.279 But we are going to hear them making statements about 90 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:14.720 how about how humanity does need to work with nature, 91 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:19.079 and how we need to learn to build our big 92 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:24.920 towering cities in alignment with nature. Yes, we do need 93 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.480 to change our civilization so that we are in alignment 94 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:35.480 with nature if we don't actually start doing some things 95 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.399 that are going to be more in alignment with nature, 96 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:45.360 such as ending some of the corporate greed that nature 97 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:52.120 is going to hand us one disaster after another until 98 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:58.200 it forces humanity to be in alignment with nature and 99 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:05.200 be harmony with our planet. That is the one thing 100 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.240 that we do need to learn to do is to 101 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:14.080 be in harmony with our planet. And one of those 102 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:18.159 things again, that's end corporate greed, all right, So we're 103 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:23.679 gonna hear here that today. Also, we are also going 104 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:30.720 to hear about what is happening in gossip leading back 105 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:36.120 to again living in harmony with nature. That wouldn't mean 106 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.840 that we need to find ways to end the wars 107 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.480 that are happening there. We're going to hear about uprises 108 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:49.000 in cholera in the Middle East, and we're also going 109 00:09:49.080 --> 00:10:02.559 to hear that they is a confirmed case both UH 110 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:07.000 confirmed case of polio, the first confirmed case of polio 111 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:14.600 in a very long time. As the war itself is 112 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:20.919 uprooting and setting conditions for certain types of diseases to reappear, 113 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.080 one of the reasons why we need to end the 114 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:32.320 war and find peaceful solutions to our differences. So there 115 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.399 there there is going to be a in in Gossad. 116 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:41.360 There is going to be a massive vaccination campaign against 117 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:49.240 to vaccinate the kids against UH polio and protect the 118 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:52.799 the of course the global widespread of polio because if 119 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.559 we have a large number of kids in our world 120 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.639 with such a such a disease, then it there is 121 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.600 a chance of its spreading around our planet again. So again, 122 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.679 work with our planet in the wars and we're probably 123 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.879 gonna be a lot better off. Okay, So why don't 124 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.120 we go back to Ottawa and we're going to listen 125 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:27.080 to with Stephen McKennon had to say about the railways 126 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:29.360 and the binding arbitration. 127 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.279 Good afternoon everyone, just with. 128 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:44.279 Avel. 129 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:52.960 The processors, the Nego Collective, the Negosias Collective and not 130 00:11:53.440 --> 00:12:03.159 Economy Sas Narlie Nicosia Actual fer Nacionage Canada, the Canadia Pacific, 131 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.200 the Kansas City Conference Favier, the teams, Theirs Canada, You're 132 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:13.320 not outfe to jour Atatan pred Modern Negotia, s n is, 133 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.879 sepe cars or come Asi they lock out a locally 134 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.879 travel the team stairs of s pe so Maya grev 135 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:25.120 and min we Earn Somati sen Neegosias Collective, a Parti 136 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:30.639 unikma a n Seppe Cassi a La Conference Feravier, the 137 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:36.519 Teamsters Canada, mele riper the LAPAs actual so resc par 138 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:42.960 la San the Canadian Air pass iliyah Atalk Minister travai 139 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:49.039 is the poor conferre virtue You cut Canadian travail peel 140 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:53.519 fril Is solution a core An Hotel, the two the 141 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:58.480 letter in our Virtue, the latsiic sausset to cut Canadian 142 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:05.919 Travai Simada, the Relation and a fair Day Regularly SPA, 143 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:12.320 the Convasion Collective and Amposa and Nowbitragh Executir finale Gal 144 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.559 Mama that tel conseil I thank you, polog the Convacion 145 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:22.320 collective vactual just cask, the nouvelle convasion, the fair, rebrand 146 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.399 in mediata, the activity, the company them fair, the million 147 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:33.360 canadia de band, the mad fair to rejo, the trevier, 148 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:41.080 the agri agriculture, Lise elvar, the naveta, the Limner. 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It is impact, the 150 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:52.720 perved s estime lhel the lansme diodat tole u there 151 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:57.519 not repe no Schmidt fair or the rep rep so low. 152 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:00.200 The cl are. 153 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:09.360 That cutive is alimajo, la patas extra paula grel responsibility Guanoma, 154 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.519 that's urella page that's the sector of vital and sinews 155 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:17.759 examine ra poquanu vivo the concrete repeated sector of vire 156 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:24.840 ale con condrio the red travas canoo observo they can well, 157 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:31.360 that's your as guanoma Les Pascal Patino Sacua the responsibility 158 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:36.480 and a table, the negosias so too, lascola security travi 159 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:43.919 is sell the collectivity can negotiation is the mayo faso 160 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:50.559 laid lava. Then negasias collective la fas salid rabs on conclude, 161 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:58.720 there's our ban April the Canada in Nacion commercealt not 162 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:07.759 guandama fra two ski two skiate velt ela celtituchmidfahre ac 163 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:14.440 larsan del econemy de mer repute dale monde asier. I'll 164 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.320 repeat it in English. I'm proud, obviously to be part 165 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.720 of a government that has done a lot for the 166 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:25.399 labor movement and is committed totally to collective bargaining. Collective 167 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:29.440 bargaining is not easy, but when parties put in the 168 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.919 work at the table, our economy is always better off 169 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:36.639 as a result. In the current collective bargaining negotiations between 170 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:40.960 Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific, Kansas City and the Teamsters 171 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.440 Canada Rail Conference, an agreement has so far proven elusive. 172 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:51.320 After months of negotiations, Cnrail and CPKC began lockouts, while 173 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.840 Teamster's Canada Railroad workers at CPKC went on strike at 174 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.799 twelve oh one am this morning. These collective bargaining negotiations 175 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:03.559 belong to these parties, but their effects and the impacts 176 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.279 of the current impass are being borne by all Canadians, 177 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.399 and there is an impass. As Minister of Labor, I'm 178 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.759 using my authorities under the Canada Labor Code to secure 179 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.679 industrial peace and deliver the short and long term solutions 180 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.639 that are in the national interest. Under Section one oh 181 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.200 seven of the Canada Labor Code, I've directed the Canada 182 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.159 Industrial Relations Board to assist the parties in settling the 183 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:35.360 outstanding terms of their collective agreements by imposing final binding arbitration. 184 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:38.879 I have also directed the Board to extend the term 185 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.519 of the current collective agreements until new agreements have been signed, 186 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:47.279 and for operations on both railways to resume forthwith. Millions 187 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:54.039 of Canadians rely on our railways every day. Workers, farmers, ranchers, commuters, 188 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:58.879 small businesses, miners, chemists, scientists. The list goes on, and 189 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:03.080 the impacts can be understated, and they extend to every 190 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.200 corner of this country. Our railways have impacts on the 191 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.799 water we drink with the shipment of chlorine, and they 192 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.400 help grow the food we eat with potash mind for fertilizer. 193 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.319 It is the government's responsibility to ensure industrial peace in 194 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.720 this critically vital sector. Thus, we will be examining why 195 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.880 we experience repeated conflicts in the railway sector and the 196 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.839 conditions that led to the parallel work stoppages we are seeing. 197 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:35.960 Canadians must be assured that their government will not allow 198 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.640 them to suffer when parties do not fill their responsibility 199 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:43.079 to them at the bargaining table, especially where worker and 200 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:47.720 community safety is at stake. Negotiated agreements have and will 201 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:51.400 always be the best way forward. Collective bargaining is how 202 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.480 the strongest, longest lasting deals are made, deals that are 203 00:17:55.519 --> 00:18:00.839 good for unions and employees, employers alike, the trading nation. 204 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.920 Our government will do everything in its power to preserve 205 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.160 the stability and certainty that our railways and entire economy 206 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:11.279 are renowned for the world over. 207 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.839 Okay, next up, we're gonna go saying it, saying with Ottawa. 208 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.240 Of course, we're going to listen to what is happening 209 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.680 as they're about to ramp up in the next few 210 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:32.599 weeks or months with Cops sixteen. And at this time 211 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.799 it will be in I believe in Colombia's what they're 212 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:40.880 going to say. So let's listen to what the three 213 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.759 ministers who are helping the lead off Cops sixteen have 214 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:45.319 to say. 215 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:53.039 Yeah, on the road to Cops sixteen, And in that regard, 216 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:55.920 we are delighted to have with us the principul actors 217 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:00.440 who took us from COP fifteen to COPS sixteen. This event, 218 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.599 we have with us the Minister of Environment, the honormal 219 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:06.079 Stephen Gila, who's the Minister of Environment in Climate Change 220 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.240 in Canada, with us seated in the middle. 221 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.880 We also have with us the honorable. 222 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.400 Susanne Mohammad, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable and Element 223 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.079 of Columbia, who is the incoming president for the COP 224 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.160 sixteen meeting planned this fall in Kai, Colombia. 225 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:20.799 And we have an Astrid Showmaker. 226 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:24.039 With us, the Executive Secretary of the Conventional Biological Diversity 227 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.759 and sitting right beside me here is David Cooper, who 228 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.640 is the Deputy Executive Secretary of a convention biological version 229 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.119 of the Four of these people were taking questions from 230 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:43.160 you in today's meeting. Jobs Stephen Gilo, Minister Lue Metzig, Canada, 231 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:51.640 Minister La Colombia Badlist, Susanna Muhammad, Secretary Executive that I 232 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:58.240 call mon Astrad Showmaker, a deputy secretary executive that calm 233 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:02.480 man s David too purchased acco do one for this conference. 234 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.720 We will have a period of about thirty minutes involving 235 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.920 a few statements from some of the participants and answering questions, 236 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:11.599 and then the ministers will have will have to leave, 237 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:13.880 and then we'll have almost an annex to this conference 238 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.440 where the Executive Secretary and the Deputy will be there 239 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.400 to take more technical questions on the formal political agenda, 240 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:21.480 formal negotiating agenda taking. 241 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:22.359 Place at COP sixteen. 242 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.200 But let me get started right now with the statements, 243 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:26.680 and when I follow it, I'll talk about I will 244 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:29.480 manage their questions so that I'd like to begin with 245 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:32.400 the Executive Secretary, Astra Schollmacher, who will set the scene 246 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:33.960 for us as the floor is yours. 247 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:36.319 Thank you, David, and good afternoon everybody. 248 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:38.759 This is the mohammedans that ego. It's really a pleasure 249 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.160 to welcome you here to the Secretary. In a way, 250 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.000 your presence symbolizes the continuity on the way to Clubs 251 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:47.039 sixteen from Cup fifteen, and of course that is a 252 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:51.200 very very important journey where we've started with unprecedented commitments 253 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:54.640 and an unprecedented new understanding of the importance of myiodiversity. 254 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.119 And now i'moder your leadership is the moomic of CLUP sixteen. 255 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:01.240 Parties have to demonstrate actually invoked the talk. So they 256 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:04.319 haven't just promised, but they put their promises into action. 257 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.559 And in order to support this movement for Morbide diversity, 258 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.400 the Colombian presidency has given us an excellent model for 259 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.160 the conference Peace with Nature. It's going to be the 260 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.359 thing of COP sixteen, and we see that really as 261 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:20.839 a powerful code to action. And of course it also 262 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:24.240 chimes in very nicely with the UN Segretary Generalist call 263 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:26.400 to make peace with Nature, which he described in a 264 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.599 landmark address in December twenty twenty two, saying that making 265 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.240 peace with nature is the defining task of the twenty 266 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:35.960 first century. And the way we see it, the couldn't 267 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:40.000 being montul Global Bidiversity Framework. The k GVF is actually 268 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:42.920 the blueprint for making peace with nature. It has four goals, 269 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.640 and these are about protecting and restoring nature, prospering with nature, 270 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:51.440 sharing the benefits that nature brings to us fairly, and 271 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:52.440 then investing and. 272 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:55.119 Collaborating with nature. And all of these issues are on 273 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.519 the agenda of COP sixteen. 274 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.160 Now, most importantly that I already said it is to 275 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:04.400 demonstrate that COP fifteen has brought forward unprecedented action, just 276 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.400 as CO fifteen itself was an unprecedented agreement. So we 277 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:09.799 will be looking at the TOP fifteen and how countries 278 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:13.160 have started their journey of implementation to twenty thirty. This 279 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:16.880 is done either via national biodiversity strategy and action plans, 280 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.920 and that also targets the countries have to put forward, 281 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:21.440 and the deadline. 282 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:22.039 For that is COP sixteen. 283 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:24.200 Will we are pleased, for example, to say that already 284 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:27.119 sixty month, parties have come forward with more than fifteen 285 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:31.119 hundred targets that analyzing and can report on at COP sixteen. 286 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:35.799 Also very very important will be that COP sixteen finishes 287 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:39.200 the unfinished business from CROP fifteen, and they're in particular 288 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.720 this is about access and benefit sharing on digital sequence 289 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.279 information from genetic resources. How is a very technical subject, 290 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:48.880 but the very very important one also in terms of 291 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.000 safe mobilization of resources, but also in terms of the 292 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:54.880 understanding of how we interact with nature, that when we 293 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:57.480 take from nature and we benefit from nature, we give 294 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:01.079 back to nature. And it's about operationalized the mechanism that 295 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.319 was a very needed COUP fifteen and in addition to 296 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:09.920 the CUP fifteen also made ambitious promises on biodiversity finance. 297 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:13.440 Now the Global Environment Facility acted quickly. Is that the 298 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:19.039 gb web, the Global Bidiversity Framework Fund and Kinda has 299 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:21.680 been leading the way with capitalized in the fund with 300 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.200 two hundred million dollars some other countries that fortitude. We're 301 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:28.240 hoping to see more action in that space in the 302 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.880 runner to CUP sixteen and at COP sixteen and then 303 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:35.000 TOPS sixteen and count solto a close. Also includes the 304 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:38.799 initiatives that will bring the indigenous peoples and local communities 305 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:41.640 to the table and elevate their voices and all the 306 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:42.680 traditional knowledge they. 307 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:44.880 Can bring to the debate that I'm sure that some 308 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:45.880 moment will speak of that. 309 00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:48.680 But they are also then part of the largest dream 310 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:51.200 zone that we have ever seen, where all actors of 311 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:55.039 civil society can bring together their energy and their ideas 312 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:58.359 of how we can move forward in the implementation of 313 00:23:58.480 --> 00:23:59.279 a framework. 314 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:01.240 So, but Onia's. 315 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.480 Admirable efforts and ensuring this right wide as possible participation 316 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:08.319 really consistent with one of the main credos I would 317 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.440 say of the framework, and that is that we can 318 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:14.240 only achieve the framework if all parts of government work together, 319 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.119 but also all parts of society come together, and we 320 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:20.799 have an ample opportunity at helps sixteen to demonstrate all work. 321 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.400 And I think he was a veteran. 322 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:26.640 Hunt that goes with great thank you very much, Executive secretary. 323 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:29.720 So our executive secretary is set the scene. 324 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:32.160 And so now as we are in Montreal, is entirely 325 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.079 fitting that we hear from the Minister Glow, who was 326 00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:40.319 representing Canada hosting us here, hosting a great meeting where 327 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:41.839 the kuldn't make Montreal global. 328 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:44.160 Broderc your framework came into being. So Minister, I invite 329 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:47.319 you to take the form and see the mode to us. 330 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:48.440 Welcome to all. 331 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:51.000 First, I would like to say that we are on 332 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:54.839 the unseend traditional territory of the Ganya Haaga nation, part 333 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:58.519 of the hoo Nashani Confederation. They are the traditional custodian 334 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:02.400 and guardians the lands and waters on which we gather today. 335 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:08.279 Prison thing, Madame Susanna Muhammed, I mean it's Columbian. 336 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:11.880 The ju Brazil they advocate. 337 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:17.640 Was that Ivos Pankas sit Ni Situ and champion the 338 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:23.079 La Dean got protection by Matriot little channtments. 339 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.039 Even see there they was a doctor Shaska. 340 00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:28.759 Le vision Serbizon. 341 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.960 They said all black up setts. 342 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:34.680 So today we're passing the torch on the world's biggest 343 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:39.039 nature protection conference, and so Mohammed presiding over CUPS sixteen, 344 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:42.119 will be presiding over CUPS sixteen starting on October twenty 345 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:47.240 first in Cali, Colombia. And in the last two years 346 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:50.119 we've we've done a lot of work. There is a 347 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:52.400 lot of work that that that needs. 348 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:52.640 To be done. 349 00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:57.200 Some of you will will recall that in twenty twenty 350 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.400 two we didn't even know that we were going to 351 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:02.960 be able to host COP sixteen, let alone be able 352 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:06.039 to come to the conclude and that many have called 353 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.039 the Paris Moment for nature. 354 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:10.480 And we did that by working together. 355 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:15.200 In challenging times. And you know, it is as challenging 356 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.400 now as it was as it was then. But that's 357 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.519 the only way we can get there is guy working together. 358 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:26.599 And the issues couldn't be as urgent as they as. 359 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:26.960 They were them. 360 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:34.319 Species are still going extinct, we're still using unsustainably using 361 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:41.160 natural resources, we're not detecting critical habitats, and and we've 362 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:46.759 still not collectively realized that in the fight against climate change, 363 00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:47.680 our biggest. 364 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:51.640 Ally is nature. So but we did we did what 365 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:52.839 very few. 366 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:54.559 Thoughts was possible. In two thousand and two. 367 00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:57.680 We got one hundred and ninety six countries to agree 368 00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:00.400 to the couldn't be once we all biodiversity. 369 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:02.640 Frame and and and and I think at the time 370 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:06.759 all countries are learning clear there's a better way to 371 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.039 work with nature and care for for nature. 372 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:17.400 Vocalective repond as the production now the community for. 373 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:20.960 Planet since a. 374 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:27.720 Par or blocky dissolution and with what depota planet. 375 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:31.160 You know that the last oaking solution because as well 376 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:35.359 so protection of the natural levetutional mathematic we call a 377 00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:42.400 little apotion plastic like cocasis to have the return on 378 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:46.759 this year come on to be quiet if folk live. 379 00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:49.400 But since we do value all being. 380 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:51.720 The case, you can I does getten a pretty hard campaign. 381 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:56.440 The protections swabs. People who don't take a shift repulsing the. 382 00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:59.640 Sonny are doing the case. Let's let's cannot do the bois. 383 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.720 You can adopt the news the spasso see us at 384 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:13.559 pludo press person or part this person the muss usual 385 00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:17.079 venez par can sila who can I done? Presca vapors 386 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:23.559 dally luca and protection lest protection man sine. You know 387 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:28.640 while listen impact on believes mathematic in the lastributes that 388 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:31.319 the nose was natural he because it's why you fruit, 389 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:36.319 because that's why you listen Noon La sims demand was 390 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:40.279 then't opportunity about SI and the society? If academic pu 391 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:46.960 Joham pokes as trips and beneath scene, the plow can 392 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.559 adopt the duce migiando la any this scene and might 393 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:52.200 tell the protection that belie their stee. 394 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.640 If Ski nationality do you see, only. 395 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:01.319 See that some converc lansandma provenist. 396 00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:07.160 Liso at the end. 397 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.200 So in October the world will look the Cali so 398 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:10.640 that we. 399 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.359 Can continue the work we started in Montreal. Countries, provinces 400 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:18.559 and thegnous nations, cities, private sector, all partners must again 401 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.799